{"id":77482,"date":"2020-06-05T19:02:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77482"},"modified":"2020-06-05T19:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:02:32","slug":"covid-19-new-cases-in-malaysia-eases-back-to-two-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=77482","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: New cases in Malaysia eases back to two figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, June 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The number of new COVID-19 positive cases dropped back to two digits today with\u00a019, nine of them\u00a0involving Malaysians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said after 13 consecutive days of no COVID-19 related deaths, there was one reported today, with the cumulative number&nbsp;being 116, or 1.4 per cent of the total number of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said seven out of the 19 cases today were imported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Of the 12 locally transmitted cases, three are non-citizens and nine are Malaysians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This brings the total number of COVID-19 positive cases in Malaysia to 8,266 cases. Therefore, the number of active COVID-19 cases with infectivity&nbsp;is 1,540. They have been isolated and are receiving treatment,&#8221; he said during a COVID-19 press conference here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 51 cases have recovered and allowed to be&nbsp;discharged, he said, adding that this took the cumulative number of those recovered to 6,610, which is 80 per cent of the total number of cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, June 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The number of new COVID-19 positive cases dropped back to two digits today with\u00a019, nine of them\u00a0involving Malaysians. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said after 13 consecutive days of no COVID-19 related deaths, there was one reported today, with the cumulative number&nbsp;being 116, or 1.4 per cent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":67379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482"}],"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=77482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482\/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=77482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}