{"id":145795,"date":"2020-12-05T13:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=145795"},"modified":"2020-12-05T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:31:01","slug":"covid-19-update-1123-new-cases-reported-today-4-new-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=145795","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: 1,123 new cases reported today, 4 new clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Athirah Mohammad<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 5 December 2020: A total of\n1,123 COVID-19 cases including five imported cases were reported as of noon\ntoday, bringing the current number of active cases to 10,775 and total\nconfirmed cases to 71,359. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr.\nNoor Hisham Abdullah reported that Sabah recorded the highest number of cases\nwhich is 391 cases followed by Kuala Lumpur and Selangor with 265 cases and 221\ncases respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also four new deaths\nreported, taking the cumulative COVID-19 death toll for the country to 380 so\nfar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153As of today, a total of 130\nindividuals were being treated in the hospital intensive care unit (ICU), with\n54 of them under respiratory assistance,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Dr. Noor Hisham disclosed a total 1,143 positive cases of COVID-19 have recovered and discharged today, adding to the total number of discharged and recovered cases to 60,204 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement today, it was also reported of detection of four new COVID-19 clusters. The four new clusters emerged are namely Batu Tiga cluster and Domis Road cluster in Sabah, Andalas cluster in Selangor and Roundabout construction cluster in Kuala Lumpur. *** <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Athirah Mohammad GOMBAK, 5 December 2020: A total of 1,123 COVID-19 cases including five imported cases were reported as of noon today, bringing the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":457,"featured_media":145796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,457],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PHOTO-2020-12-05-20-30-41.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145807,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145795\/revisions\/145807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}