{"id":146466,"date":"2020-12-18T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146466"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:44:09","slug":"covid-19-update-1683-new-cases-no-new-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146466","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: 1,683 new cases, no new deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Elaina Sabirin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 18 December 2020: Malaysia today recorded 1,683 new COVID-19 cases with no new deaths making a total of 15,140 active cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry detailed that the bulk of the new cases were 1,675 local followed by eight imported cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selangor leads at 692 cases, followed by Sabah at 260 cases and Kuala Lumpur, 197 cases. Meanwhile, there are 1,214 recovery cases today bringing a total of recovered cases to 75,244.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national cumulative death toll is at 432 with no new cases reported for the first time today since 4 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 106 active cases are currently being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with 51 patients on ventilator support.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elaina Sabirin GOMBAK, 18 December 2020: Malaysia today recorded 1,683 new COVID-19 cases with no new deaths making a total of 15,140 active cases.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":146484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,471],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG-20201218-WA0009.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146466"}],"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\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146466"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146486,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146466\/revisions\/146486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}