{"id":146522,"date":"2020-12-19T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146522"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:58:27","slug":"covid-19-update-1153-cases-recorded-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146522","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: 1,153 cases recorded today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Rifqah Husna<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 19 December 2020: Malaysia recorded 1,153 new COVID-19 cases today with one death, making a total of 15,294 active cases and total death at 433.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Health the bulk of new cases with 1,151 are local followed by two imported cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah stated that Selangor leads with the highest number of new cases at 401, followed by Kuala Lumpur, 281, and Sabah at 199.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are 998 new recovered cases making the total of recovery cases at 76,242.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a total of 112 active cases are currently being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with 56 patients requiring ventilator support.<\/p>\n<p>The public are reminded to always adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOP) and to practise social distancing in their everyday life.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rifqah Husna GOMBAK, 19 December 2020: Malaysia recorded 1,153 new COVID-19 cases today with one death, making a total of 15,294 active cases and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":146527,"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":[12,134,461],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-19-at-6.39.18-PM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146522"}],"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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147783,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146522\/revisions\/147783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}