{"id":146654,"date":"2020-12-23T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146654"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:34:36","slug":"covid-19-update-1348-cases-today-with-five-new-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146654","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: 1,348 cases today with five new deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><strong>By Siti Aisyah Mariam Abdul Wahab<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 23 December 2020: The Ministry of Health today announced 1,348 new COVID-19 cases of infections with five new deaths in the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 444.<\/p>\n<p>According to Health Ministry, Selangor continues to lead for the eighth consecutive day with 535 cases. This was followed by Kuala Lumpur (226), Sabah (189), Melaka (124), and Johor (118).<\/p>\n<p>Other states recorded below 100 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Pahang recorded 45 new cases, followed by Pulau Pinang (43), Kedah (14), Perak (8). Putrajaya, Kelantan, Sarawak with 4 new cases in each state and Labuan with two cases.<\/p>\n<p>However, there were no cases reported in Perlis.<\/p>\n<p>From all the cases reported today, a total of 193 infections were related to lock-ups, prisons and immigration detention centres with 123 cases recorded in the Jalan Harapan Prison cluster, Tembok Gajah cluster (56), Kolam Air cluster (8), and Hala Mutiara cluster (1).<\/p>\n<p>The 1,348 cases recorded today has brought the total number of infections in the country to 97,737 with 18,279 active cases since early this year. ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Siti Aisyah Mariam Abdul Wahab GOMBAK, 23 December 2020: The Ministry of Health today announced 1,348 new COVID-19 cases of infections with five new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":146762,"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":[12,134,465],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COVID-UPDATE.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146654"}],"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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146654"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146775,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146654\/revisions\/146775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}