{"id":67030,"date":"2020-03-25T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67030"},"modified":"2020-03-25T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:42:00","slug":"another-fatality-malaysia-records-17th-death-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67030","title":{"rendered":"Another fatality, Malaysia records 17th death by  COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The death toll due to COVID-19 in Malaysia has risen to 17 with one more death reported to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre\u00a0(CPRC) today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health&nbsp;director-general&nbsp;Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the patient&nbsp;(Case 1251) was&nbsp;a 66-year-old Malaysian with a history of chronic illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe patient&nbsp;started showing symptoms of the disease a week before being admitted to Sultanah Fatimah Specialist Hospital in Muar on March 20 and was already in critical condition&nbsp;when taken to the Emergency Department and was in need of respiratory assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe patient&nbsp;was tested positive for COVID-19 on March 21 and was pronounced dead at 4.10 am today,\u201d he said in a posting on his official Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient\u2019s source of infection is being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The death toll due to COVID-19 in Malaysia has risen to 17 with one more death reported to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre\u00a0(CPRC) today. Health&nbsp;director-general&nbsp;Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the patient&nbsp;(Case 1251) was&nbsp;a 66-year-old Malaysian with a history of chronic illness. \u201cThe patient&nbsp;started showing symptoms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":66611,"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\/67030"}],"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=67030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}