{"id":164575,"date":"2022-04-11T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164575"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:10:46","slug":"covid-19-daily-cases-drop-below-10000-for-the-first-time-since-5-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164575","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Daily cases drop below 10,000 for the first time since 5 Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Shahanim Shafee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PETALING JAYA, 11 April 2022: Malaysia recorded 8,112 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday (10 April), says the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Star <\/em>reported the last time daily new cases dropped below 10,000 was on 5 February, with 9,117 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the CovidNow portal, this took the total number of infections in the country to 4,325,818 cases since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported that there were 25 imported COVID-19 infections on Sunday, with the remaining 8,087 cases the result of local transmissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were also 15,765 recoveries on Sunday with a total number of 145,799 active cases in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 12 deaths reported on Sunday, with four brought-in-dead (BID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 77,406 tests conducted with a positivity rate of 13.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 731 patients were admitted to hospitals throughout the country on Sunday, with 174 warded in intensive care units (ICU) and 110 requiring breathing assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 40,792 COVID-19 vaccines were administered, including 6,675 booster shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No new clusters were identified on Sunday and there are currently 129 active clusters in the country.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: The Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shahanim Shafee PETALING JAYA, 11 April 2022: Malaysia recorded 8,112 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday (10 April), says the Health Ministry. The Star reported&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5699,"featured_media":164582,"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":[12,156,5699],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20210216-Letter-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164575"}],"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\/5699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164593,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164575\/revisions\/164593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}