{"id":160719,"date":"2021-12-23T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=160719"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:31:33","slug":"zero-new-cases-of-covid-19-reported-despite-flood-victims-at-361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=160719","title":{"rendered":"Zero new cases of COVID-19 reported despite flood victims at 361"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By NurFatihah Irdina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 24 December 2021: As we approach the second week of flood disaster amidst this pandemic, the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported zero new COVID-19 cases as of Thursday in temporary flood relief centres (PPS), despite the number of victims at 361 previously.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned by the Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, the medical teams at the PPS have prescribed outpatient treatment and examination to a total of 963 (27.2%) of the 3,438 flood victims.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the flood victims, there are several diseases suffered by the flood victims as recorded by MoH. To list a few: 203 acute respiratory tract infections, 50 skin infections, 13 cases of acute gastroenteritis, one case of hand, foot and mouth disease, and 43 other infections illnesses among the evacuees.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the COVID-19 cases into account, Dr. Noor Hisham said the overall count of cases are 2,728,203 including 3,519 fresh new cases.<\/p>\n<p>Four new clusters had emerged yesterday, bringing the total number of clusters to 6,086 since the start of the pandemic. 234 clusters remain active, while 5,854 clusters have ended.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of recovery, the country saw 5118 recoveries, thus bringing down the number of discharged to 2,647,587.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the ministrys CovidNow website reported 57 deaths on Thursday, including five that were brought in dead.<\/p>\n<p>The number of patients under intensive care are 331, with 187 requiring breathing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 3,519 new cases, Dr. Noor Hisham said 3,454 (98.2%) are in Categories 1 and 2, while 65 cases (1.8%) are in Categories 3,4 and 5.<\/p>\n<p>He also reported that the infectivity rate (R-naught) for the nation is below 1.0 at an R-naught of 0.90, with Pahang being on top of the list with 1.00 and Penang (1.00) while the rest of the states and federal territories are below 1.0. &#8211; reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevibes.com\/articles\/news\/50318\/zero-covid-19-cases-in-flood-relief-centres-today\">theVibes<\/a>***<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NurFatihah Irdina KUALA LUMPUR, 24 December 2021: As we approach the second week of flood disaster amidst this pandemic, the Ministry of Health (MoH)&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"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":[12,156,485],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160719"}],"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\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160759,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160719\/revisions\/160759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}