{"id":160318,"date":"2021-12-16T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=160318"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:33:33","slug":"second-omicron-case-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=160318","title":{"rendered":"Second Omicron case in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ma Ziyi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 16 December 2021: Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin announced today that Malaysia discovered a second confirmed case of COVID-19 Omicron variant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This case is an 8-year-old girl, a Malaysian citizen, who lived in Nigeria with her family and was confirmed when she entered Malaysia and underwent testing at the airport,&#8221; Khairy said at a press conference in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that on 5 December, the girl, her mother and sister came to Malaysia from Nigeria and were transferred through Doha, Qatar. The COVID-19 test was negative before arriving in Malaysia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, it was tested and confirmed upon arrival here on 7 December. At present, she has no symptoms and needs to be quarantined at home for 14 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As close contacts of the girl, her mother and sister were both tested negative for COVID-19 before arrival in Malaysia, on arrival in Malaysia and on the fifth day of quarantine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the monitoring report of the driver has not yet been released. All three have no symptoms and need to be quarantined at home for 14 days,&#8221; Khairy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that later the girl&#8217;s father arrived in Malaysia on 12 December  and was quarantined in a private quarantine centre for 14 days. The test results on arrival were negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In addition, 35 contacts on the plane were tested on arrival and on the fifth day after contacted, and the results were negative. The Health Ministry will supervise these contacts constantly,&#8221; Khairy pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health Minister also said that another 18 suspected Omicron cases were being tested and the results would be released tomorrow (December 17). ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Sin Chew Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ma Ziyi KUALA LUMPUR, 16 December 2021: Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin announced today that Malaysia discovered a second confirmed case of COVID-19 Omicron variant.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5701,"featured_media":160320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,5701],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/yq-myvac-17062022-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160318"}],"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\/5701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160335,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160318\/revisions\/160335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}