{"id":99626,"date":"2020-11-03T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99626"},"modified":"2020-11-03T12:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:32:45","slug":"covid-19-maha-2020-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99626","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: MAHA 2020 postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The Malaysia\u00a0Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism (MAHA) 2020 show\u00a0scheduled for Nov 26 to 29\u00a0has been postponed to a date to be determined later, following the spike in COVID-19 cases in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of yesterday, the Ministry of Health reported 834 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of active cases of COVID-19 to 9,968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries (MAFI) said in a statement today, postponing MAHA 2020 was a precautionary measure to break the COVID-19 transmission&nbsp;chain as well as ensure the safety, health and well-being of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAFI also expressed its appreciation for the commitment given by all parties involved in the preparation of the annual exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug&nbsp;6,&nbsp;Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced that MAHA would&nbsp;be held in a hybrid manner, physically and virtually,&nbsp;in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The Malaysia\u00a0Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism (MAHA) 2020 show\u00a0scheduled for Nov 26 to 29\u00a0has been postponed to a date to be determined later, following the spike in COVID-19 cases in the country. As of yesterday, the Ministry of Health reported 834 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":99631,"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\/99626"}],"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=99626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}