{"id":68055,"date":"2020-03-31T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=68055"},"modified":"2020-03-31T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:42:38","slug":"next-2-weeks-crucial-as-it-will-indicate-mcos-success-against-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=68055","title":{"rendered":"Next 2 weeks crucial as it will indicate MCO&#8217;s effectiveness against COVID-19 spread, says Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, March 31 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;  The next two weeks of the Movement Control Order (April 1-14) will be crucial, says Malaysia&#8217;s  <br>Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This period will indicate whether the steps so far that have been taken by the government in the fight against the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spread have had the desired impact, he said during the daily press update on the COVID-19 development here today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first two weeks of the implementation of the MCO beginning March 18, the daily trend has shown an increase, and\u00a0occasionally sideways, in new cases recorded, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the same period\u00a0the number of daily discharged cases had also increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first week of the MCO (March 18-25), the daily new cases were between 117 and 212 cases, while in the second week (March 21-31) showed the highest number of new cases recorded at 235 and the lowest was at 130 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis data shows the impact of the activities conducted by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and various agencies in the last one month (including during the MCO period).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, March 31 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The next two weeks of the Movement Control Order (April 1-14) will be crucial, says Malaysia&#8217;s Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. This period will indicate whether the steps so far that have been taken by the government in the fight against the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spread have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":67379,"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\/68055"}],"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=68055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055\/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=68055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}