{"id":146549,"date":"2020-12-20T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146549"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:30:52","slug":"covid-19-update-1340-cases-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146549","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: 1,340 cases today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nabila Natasha<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 20 December 2020:  Malaysias 1,340 new COVID-19 infections meant that its cumulative number of cases is the third highest in South East Asia after Indonesia and Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a press conference today, Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country now has 93,309 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world figures are led by the United States, which has recorded about 17.6 million cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Malaysia saw four COVID-19 deaths, bringing the death toll to 437 in the country so far. Meanwhile, three cases are imported, while the rest are local transmissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of people with active COVID-19 infections in Malaysia is now 15,563. A total of 116 patients are in intensive care unit (ICU), with 57 requiring ventilator support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 1,067 COVID-19 patients have been discharged, which means 77,309 people or 82.9% have recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selangor continued to record the highest increase of the day with 441 confirmed cases or 32.9% of todays total.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nabila Natasha GOMBAK, 20 December 2020: Malaysias 1,340 new COVID-19 infections meant that its cumulative number of cases is the third highest in South&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":146550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,478],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-20-at-19.00.24.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146549"}],"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\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146558,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146549\/revisions\/146558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}