{"id":147065,"date":"2020-12-27T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=147065"},"modified":"2020-12-27T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:27:14","slug":"covid-19-updates-1196-new-cases-today-with-997-new-recoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=147065","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Updates: 1,196 new cases today with 997 new recoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Siti Fatimah Azzahra Zawawi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 27 December 2020 &#8211; Malaysia today recorded a total of 1,196 new active cases of COVID-19 with Selangor being the highest with a total of 392 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From yesterdays report, the recovery today has increased with a number of 997 cases free of COVID-19. This brings the cases of recoveries to 84,411 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry of Health, the overall total confirmed cases are 105,096 and 20,233 cases are still active.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top three clusters with a high number of cases are Tampoi Jaya, Johor with 78 new cases, Tapak Bina Jalan Stadium with 63 new cases, and Beringin with 30 new cases as of today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry discovered a new cluster from workplace which involves Tawau and Kelabakan district in Sabah. The index cases for this cluster was reported positive COVID-19 after symptomatic individual screening on 20 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until today, 26 individuals were screened and 14 of the cases were reported positive in this new cluster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Noor Hisham asserted that the war against COVID-19 is not over yet, and people should continue practising COVID-19 protocols to protect themselves and others around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If one ought to go out, there should be strictly no body contact, and greet people with a hand on chest.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Siti Fatimah Azzahra Zawawi GOMBAK, 27 December 2020 &#8211; Malaysia today recorded a total of 1,196 new active cases of COVID-19 with Selangor being&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":147067,"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":[12,134,484],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-27-at-6.44.40-PM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147065"}],"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\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147070,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147065\/revisions\/147070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}