{"id":64666,"date":"2020-03-06T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T08:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64666"},"modified":"2020-03-06T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T08:12:14","slug":"no-cases-of-covid-19-in-malaysias-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64666","title":{"rendered":"No cases of COVID-19 in Malaysia&#8217;s armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/malaysian-armed-forces-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64679\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/malaysian-armed-forces-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/malaysian-armed-forces-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/malaysian-armed-forces-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/malaysian-armed-forces-1-555x370.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 6&nbsp;(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Malaysian Armed Forces today refuted claims that there were cases of COVID-19 at the&nbsp;Subang Airforce Base and the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief of Defence Forces Gen Affendi Buang, when contacted by Bernama Thursday, said news of alleged COVID-19 cases&nbsp;among the armed forces, that had gone viral via the WhatsApp service was not true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That (news) is not true. Actually, the Air Force Operations chief had visited&nbsp;a private hospital in Subang where&nbsp;COVID-19 patients were warded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was, however, screened and quarantined as a precautionary measure and he was (subsequently) confirmed to be&nbsp;free of the infection. This has been misinterpreted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Affendi also denied the existence of a thermal scanner at&nbsp;the Mindef building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was in Mindef myself. I don&#8217;t know about it (thermal scanner). So it&#8217;s not accurate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, a message had gone viral on the WhatsApp alleging the spread of&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;among armed forces personnel and that extra security measures had been taken at the Subang Air Base including the installation of a thermal scanner at Level 18 of the Mindef building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 6&nbsp;(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Malaysian Armed Forces today refuted claims that there were cases of COVID-19 at the&nbsp;Subang Airforce Base and the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) here. Chief of Defence Forces Gen Affendi Buang, when contacted by Bernama Thursday, said news of alleged COVID-19 cases&nbsp;among the armed forces, that had gone viral via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":64679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}