{"id":144700,"date":"2021-09-17T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144700"},"modified":"2021-09-17T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:32:11","slug":"covid-17577-new-cases-reported-in-msia-sarawak-still-highest-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144700","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 17,577 New Cases Reported In M&#8217;sia, Sarawak Still Highest &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s new COVID-19 cases dipped further again after 17,577 infections were reported today, compared to 18,815 cases yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in sharing COVID-19 related data on his social media accounts, said the latest numbers bring COVID-19 cumulative cases to 2,067,327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Sarawak continued being the state with the highest daily new cases, reporting 3,480 infections, followed by Selangor (2,646) and Johor with 2,334 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four states recorded over 1,000 new infections, namely Perak with 1,596 cases, Sabah (1,533), Penang (1,462) and Kedah (1,173).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelantan reported 869 cases, Pahang (832), Terengganu (719), Kuala Lumpur (366), Melaka (287), Negeri Sembilan (198), Perlis (41), Putrajaya (31) and Labuan (10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham also said that intensive care unit (ICU) bed usage nationwide yesterday was 76 per cent out of 1,611 beds, while for non-ICU, it was 70 per cent out of 17,043 beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s new COVID-19 cases dipped further again after 17,577 infections were reported today, compared to 18,815 cases yesterday. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in sharing COVID-19 related data on his social media accounts, said the latest numbers bring COVID-19 cumulative cases to 2,067,327. He said Sarawak continued being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":97816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}