{"id":175886,"date":"2022-05-17T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T03:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175886"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T03:16:29","slug":"malaysia-reports-1697-new-covid-19-infections-five-new-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175886","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Reports 1,697 New COVID-19 Infections, Five New Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia reported 1,697 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight, bringing the national total to 4,479,809, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no new imported cases, with all 1,697 fresh infections being local transmissions, data released on the ministry&#8217;s website showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 35,620.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry reported 1,548 new recoveries, bringing the total number of the cured and discharged to 4,413,310.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among 30,879 active cases, 40 are being held in intensive care and 22 of those are in need of assisted breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 9,228 vaccine doses administered yesterday, and 85.4 percent of the population have received at least one dose, 82.5 percent are fully vaccinated and 49.2 percent have received boosters.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia reported 1,697 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight, bringing the national total to 4,479,809, according to the Health Ministry. There are no new imported cases, with all 1,697 fresh infections being local transmissions, data released on the ministry&#8217;s website showed. Five more deaths have been reported, bringing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175893,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886\/revisions\/175893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}