{"id":164140,"date":"2022-02-16T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=164140"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:43:43","slug":"malaysia-reports-27831-new-covid-cases-highest-since-pandemic-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=164140","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Reports 27,831 New COVID Cases, Highest Since Pandemic Began"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s daily COVID-19 tally hit a record high of 27,831 cases Wednesday, the highest since the pandemic began in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the cumulative figure to&nbsp;3,111,514 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in his tweet said of the total new cases reported today, 99.65 per cent or&nbsp;27,734 cases were in categories one and two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnly 97 cases or 0.35 per cent are in categories three, four and five,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s tally saw an increase of over 5,000 cases from 22,133 cases recorded Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the highest figure of 24,599&nbsp;cases was recorded on&nbsp;Oct 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s daily COVID-19 tally hit a record high of 27,831 cases Wednesday, the highest since the pandemic began in January 2020. This brings the cumulative figure to&nbsp;3,111,514 cases. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in his tweet said of the total new cases reported today, 99.65 per cent or&nbsp;27,734 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":67379,"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\/164140"}],"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=164140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}