{"id":154340,"date":"2021-12-03T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=154340"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:20:05","slug":"covid-19-malaysia-records-first-omicron-case-involving-south-african-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=154340","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Malaysia Records First Omicron Case, Involving South African Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), Dec 3 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia has recorded its first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, involving a South African student studying at a private university in Ipoh city of Perak state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin told reporters Friday that the 19-year-old female student arrived from South Africa via Singapore on Nov 19 and had undergone a COVID-19 RT-PCR test upon entry at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the individual was then subjected to the Observation and Surveillance Order under Section 15 of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) and completed a 10-day home quarantine alone at a residence prepared by the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was confirmed positive for the variant of concern on Dec 2, Khairy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the individual was fully vaccinated, was asymptomatic, and had fully complied with the home quarantine order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), Dec 3 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia has recorded its first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, involving a South African student studying at a private university in Ipoh city of Perak state. Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin told reporters Friday that the 19-year-old female student arrived from South Africa via Singapore on Nov 19 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":154019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154340"}],"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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}