{"id":158714,"date":"2021-11-12T22:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=158714"},"modified":"2021-11-12T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:35:26","slug":"infectivity-rate-back-to-1-0-health-ministry-expresses-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=158714","title":{"rendered":"Infectivity rate back to 1.0, Health Ministry expresses concern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nazifa Ramailan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PETALING JAYA, 13 November 2021: Malaysia&#8217;s COVID-19 infectivity (R0) rate has recurred to 1.0, Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said in his statement made through his official Twitter account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, the infectivity rate had increased again as the rate of daily case has yet to descend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This means the daily case rate is levelling off and our concern is if it spikes again,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham advised the public not to be complacent and to keep adhering to the standard operating procedure (SOP). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also urged the vulnerable groups to get a booster dose once the appointment is set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysias COVID-19 infectivity (R0) rate stood at 0.99, with Putrajaya settled at the highest level of 1.06 as of yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Kuala Lumpur and Selangor recorded R0 levels of 1.03 whilst 1.01 for Kelantan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin had earlier announced that 40 percent of those who are eligible for COVID-19 booster shots did not show up for their appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The hospitalisation cases will surely upsurge if the booster take-up is insufficient, especially among the elderly and those with comorbidities,&#8221; Khairy added.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Free Malaysia Today<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nazifa Ramailan PETALING JAYA, 13 November 2021: Malaysia&#8217;s COVID-19 infectivity (R0) rate has recurred to 1.0, Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2704,"featured_media":158725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,8,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,2704],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_MAEPS_COVID19_PATIENTS_FRONTLINERS_FMT_15092021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158714"}],"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\/2704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158714"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158732,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158714\/revisions\/158732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}