{"id":83247,"date":"2020-07-13T21:51:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=83247"},"modified":"2020-07-13T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:51:54","slug":"covid-19-seven-new-cases-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=83247","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Seven new cases in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Seven new positive cases of COVID-19, including six imported cases, were reported in Malaysia today, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this brings the cumulative figure for positive cases to&nbsp;8,725, with&nbsp;83 being active cases with infectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The six imported cases, who were infected overseas, comprise two Malaysians and four non-citizens&nbsp;(residents or those allowed to enter Malaysia for work purposes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sole case of local transmission involves a Malaysian, from the Novgorod&nbsp;PUI (patient&nbsp;under investigation) Cluster,\u201d he said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham&nbsp;said another case had recovered and was discharged today, bringing the cumulative figure for recoveries to 8,520, or&nbsp;97.7 per cent of the total number of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said no fatality was reported today, keeping the death toll at&nbsp;122, or&nbsp;1.39 per cent of the total number of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFour positive cases are still being treated in the Intensive Care Unit, with three requiring ventilator support,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham&nbsp;reminded those under home surveillance to always abide by the COVID-19 Management Guidelines,&nbsp;including to stay at home throughout the quarantine period and to limit the number of visitors to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said they should also avoid sharing cutlery and personal hygiene items like toothbrushes&nbsp;with other members of their household and to have good ventilation at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFamily members of returning Malaysians are reminded not to have too many people receiving them at the International Entry Gate.&nbsp;If there are symptomatic individuals among family members or housemates of the travellers, they are required to get immediate treatment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Seven new positive cases of COVID-19, including six imported cases, were reported in Malaysia today, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said this brings the cumulative figure for positive cases to&nbsp;8,725, with&nbsp;83 being active cases with infectivity. &#8220;The six imported cases, who were infected overseas, comprise two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":81509,"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\/83247"}],"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=83247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}