{"id":85367,"date":"2020-07-28T17:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85367"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:07:10","slug":"surge-in-daily-new-covid-19-cases-dr-noor-hisham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85367","title":{"rendered":"Surge in daily new COVID-19 cases &#8211; Dr Noor Hisham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The daily tally of new positive COVID-19 cases surged again to 39 today, from a one digit number, which was only seven cases, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the latest daily figure brings to 8,943 the cumulative number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country, while the number of active cases with infectivity is now 212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the 39 new cases reported, 11 are imported cases, involving four Malaysians and seven foreigners who were allowed to enter Malaysia,\u201d he said in a press statement on COVID-19 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 11 imported cases, he said they were &nbsp;from Saudi Arabia (one case in Sabah),&nbsp;&nbsp;Ireland (one case in&nbsp;Kuala Lumpur); South Korea Selatan (one case in Sarawak and one case in Kuala Lumpur); India (one case in&nbsp;Kedah); Russia (one case in Kuala Lumpur); United States of America (one case in Kuala Lumpur); South America (one case in Sarawak); United Kingdom (two cases in Sarawak); and the Philippines (one case in&nbsp; Labuan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 28 cases of local transmission, he said, 22 involved Malaysians&nbsp;and six were&nbsp;non-citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The daily tally of new positive COVID-19 cases surged again to 39 today, from a one digit number, which was only seven cases, yesterday. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the latest daily figure brings to 8,943 the cumulative number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":72793,"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\/85367"}],"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=85367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}