{"id":157463,"date":"2021-12-28T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=157463"},"modified":"2021-12-28T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:25:06","slug":"malaysia-records-2897-new-covid-cases-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=157463","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Records 2,897 New COVID Cases On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The number of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia increased slightly with 2,897 from 2,757 on Monday, bringing the cumulative figure to 2,746,833.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that out of the new cases, 50 per cent were in categories 3, 4 and 5 while the rest were in categories 1 and 2, having slight or no symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The daily figure involves 2,705 local and 192 imported cases, with 302 of the cases being treated at the intensive care units including 169 needing respiratory support,\u201d he said in a statement on the latest COVID-19 developments in the country on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the cases that have recovered, 3,434 have been recorded, bringing the cumulative number to 2,673,084.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, four new clusters have been detected, bringing the number of active clusters to 226 while the infectivity rate (Rt) in the country was at 0.93 up to on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham also said that 434 COVID-19 cases were detected among the flood victims, including 14 at the flood relief centres (PPS) up to 3 pm today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are no new clusters reported today among the flood victims at the PPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The number of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia increased slightly with 2,897 from 2,757 on Monday, bringing the cumulative figure to 2,746,833. Health director-general, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that out of the new cases, 50 per cent were in categories 3, 4 and 5 while the rest were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":81509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157463"}],"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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}