{"id":147407,"date":"2021-01-04T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=147407"},"modified":"2021-01-04T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:14:32","slug":"covid-19-update-malaysia-floods-with-1741-cases-7-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=147407","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Update: Malaysia floods with 1,741 cases, 7 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ariani Mohd Nor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 4 January 2020: Another spike in COVID-19 cases has Malaysia reaching 1,741 cases today, adding up to the total of 120,818 overall cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said that seven new fatalities are also recorded bringing the nation&#8217;s death toll to 501.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that among the five new clusters discovered, three were linked to workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selangor leads with 687 cases, 109 from the newly found clusters Jalan Duyong and Pasar Jalan Sentosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the active cases, 122 are in intensive care with 53 on life support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the bright side, 1,010 patients are discharged today which adds to the 81.3 per cent recovery rate in Malaysia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,  Senior Minister (Security Cluster), Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced that COVID-19 SOP offenders are increasing day by day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the MCO Task Force conducted  41,118 inspections nationwide for SOP compliance and compounded 463 of them, while two were remanded and one released on bail.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ariani Mohd Nor GOMBAK, 4 January 2020: Another spike in COVID-19 cases has Malaysia reaching 1,741 cases today, adding up to the total of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":147417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[134,12,136],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG-20210104-WA0012.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147407"}],"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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147407"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147424,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147407\/revisions\/147424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}