{"id":146657,"date":"2020-12-22T22:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146657"},"modified":"2020-12-22T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:01:41","slug":"covid-19-update-2062-cases-today-with-one-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=146657","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: 2,062 cases today with one death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Aisyah Karina<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 22 December 2020: A total of 2,062 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded today involving one death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest number of cases being Selangor with 1,014 cases, followed by 504 cases in Kuala Lumpur, and Sabah, the third highest with 252 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the 2,062 cases, four were imported and 2,058 were local cases. One death was reported in Labuan to which the victim was a non-citizen aged 69 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim had died on 8 November but the cause of death being COVID-19 was confirmed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from that, eight new clusters of COVID-19 were identified by the Health Ministry such as Tapak Bina Residen, Pasar Baru and Seruling clusters located in Klang Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>309 individuals were tested positive from the 2,001 individuals involved in the Pasar Baru cluster who were screened for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no new cases reported in Perlis, Terengganu and Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, 97,389 total cases have been reported which consist of 79,304 recovery cases and 439 total deaths since 25 January this year, according to the Ministry of Health.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aisyah Karina GOMBAK, 22 December 2020: A total of 2,062 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded today involving one death. The highest number&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":146658,"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":[12,134,159],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-22-at-18.45.51.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146657"}],"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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146657"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146667,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146657\/revisions\/146667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}