{"id":190227,"date":"2022-09-05T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=190227"},"modified":"2022-09-05T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:01:55","slug":"malaysias-new-covid-19-cases-down-16-9-pct-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=190227","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s new COVID-19 cases down 16.9 pct last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The number of new cases of COVID-19 in Malaysia decreased by 16.9 per cent to 15,549 cases in the 35th Epidemiological Week (ME 35\/2022) from Aug 28 to Sept 3 compared to 18,715 in ME 34\/2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said for the same period, 47 deaths were recorded, a decrease of 21.7 per cent compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The number of recovered cases in ME 35\/2022 also dropped by 20.9 per cent, from 25,037 cases to 19,813 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The average number of active cases per day for ME 35\/2022 was 31,333, which is a decrease of 13.4 per cent compared to the week before ,&#8221; he said in a statement Monday&nbsp;regarding the latest situation of COVID-19 infections in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham said occupancy of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds increased by one per cent in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, he said the percentage of COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory assistance increased by 0.2 per cent compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The number of new cases of COVID-19 in Malaysia decreased by 16.9 per cent to 15,549 cases in the 35th Epidemiological Week (ME 35\/2022) from Aug 28 to Sept 3 compared to 18,715 in ME 34\/2022. Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said for the same period, 47 deaths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":145972,"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\/190227"}],"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=190227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190236,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190227\/revisions\/190236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}