{"id":85125,"date":"2020-07-27T19:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85125"},"modified":"2020-07-27T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:28:03","slug":"malaysias-daily-covid-19-infection-tally-back-to-single-digit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85125","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia’s daily COVID-19 infection tally back to single digit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia went back to recording single digit of new COVID-19 cases today, at seven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last single-digit tally for new cases was reported on July 23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brings the country\u2019s infection tally to 8,904 cases, with the number of active cases now at 179. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOf the seven new cases, four were imported who got infected abroad, involving three Malaysians and a foreigner married to a Malaysian,\u201d he said at the COVID-19 media briefing in Putrajaya today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imported cases are from Pakistan (one case in Sabah); Russia (one case in Selangor); Australia (one case in Kuala Lumpur); and Indonesia (one case in Kuala Lumpur).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Noor Hisham\u00a0also said that the\u00a0three local transmissions all involved Malaysians residing in Sabah.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local transmissions were cases involving pre-surgery screenings, namely two at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, while the other was from the Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital in Likas, Dr Noor Hisham said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also one recovery today, bringing the cumulative recoveries to 8,601 cases or 96.6 percent of the total number of cases, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were no cases in the intensive care unit or new fatalities reported today, with the country\u2019s COVID-19 death toll remaining at 124 cases, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about the Bukit Tiram cluster in Johor that involved a Roman Catholic church, Dr Noor Hisham said the cluster was identified as one of the groups for targetted approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact tracing to identify close contacts and those who had been present at the identified religious centre will be done immediately, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cApart from screenings and Active Case Detection, high-risk individuals closely linked to this group are very much encouraged to go for COVID-19 screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf they have symptoms, contact the nearest health clinic or district health office for treatment,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked his views on the global pandemic situation, Dr Noor Hisham said the current situation was worrying, adding that if COVID-19 cases in Malaysia were to spike drastically, health facilities would not be able to cope with the high load, which could then paralyse the nation\u2019s health care system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said to avoid this scenario, everyone must do their part and comply with standard operating procedures and the ministry\u2019s advice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

— NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia went back to recording single digit of new COVID-19 cases today, at seven.  The last single-digit tally for new cases was reported on July 23.  Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brings the country\u2019s infection tally to 8,904 cases, with the number of active cases now at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":81509,"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\/85125"}],"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=85125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85125\/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=85125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}