{"id":166488,"date":"2022-06-21T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=166488"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:31:10","slug":"zero-deaths-from-covid-19-reported-in-malaysia-khairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=166488","title":{"rendered":"Zero deaths from COVID-19 reported in Malaysia, says Khairy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Hessa Kawthar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 20 June 2022: Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin stated that Malaysia, for the first time reported zero deaths from Covid-19 since 18 December 2020, according to <em>Bernama <\/em>report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy asserted in his Tweet on Sunday (19 June), \u0153Our ongoing transition to endemicity has been calibrated and data-driven. Let us pray it continues paying off.\u009d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported the highest number of 35,732 deaths of COVID-19, which includes 28,153 inpatient deaths and 7,579 brought-in-dead (BID).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the death rate has decreased to a single digit since 22 April, and the brought-in-dead (BID) number of cases has not been reported since 15 June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of active cases in Malaysia has also decreased to 24,944, and 96% of Covid-19 patients have mild symptoms that do not jeopardise the countrys mortality rate. As reported by COVIDNOW Portal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy, therefore, attributed this improvement to the governments strategies. The decline in the COVID-19 fatality rate is mainly contributed by the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 1,294,225 (36.5 percent) children between five to eleven years old in Malaysia have received their vaccination as of yesterday under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 1,737, 624 (49 percent) of the group have at least completed their first dose vaccination, reported COVIDNOW portal.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Bernama<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hessa Kawthar KUALA LUMPUR, 20 June 2022: Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin stated that Malaysia, for the first time reported zero deaths from Covid-19 since&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5688,"featured_media":166489,"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":[11247,156,12,5688],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bernama-20.6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166488"}],"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\/5688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166530,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166488\/revisions\/166530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}