{"id":162349,"date":"2022-02-05T13:39:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162349"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T10:09:32","slug":"malaysias-new-covid-19-cases-continue-soaring-to-9117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162349","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s new COVID-19 cases continue soaring to 9,117"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Hakim Mahari<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 5 February 2022: COVID-19 infection numbers continue rising in Malaysia, with 9,117 new cases reported today, up from 7,324 cases yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time new cases breached the 9,000-case mark was on 8 October 2021 with 9,751 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said, in a tweet, that this brings the cumulative number of COVID-19 infections in the country to 2,904,131 since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Health Ministry, Khairy Jamaluddin said new COVID-19 cases in the country are expected to rise sharply in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was based on the high infection rate from the current Omicron variant wave,&#8221; he said in his tweet yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days ago, Khairy said that the severity of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia is currently its prime concern following the emergence of the Omicron variant rather than the number of daily infections.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Malay Mail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hakim Mahari KUALA LUMPUR, 5 February 2022: COVID-19 infection numbers continue rising in Malaysia, with 9,117 new cases reported today, up from 7,324 cases&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,230,232,156],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162349"}],"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\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162352,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162349\/revisions\/162352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}