{"id":1355,"date":"2021-02-11T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2021-02-11T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:31:21","slug":"avoid-large-gatherings-this-cny-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/02\/11\/avoid-large-gatherings-this-cny-health-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid large gatherings this CNY- Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA): Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today urged Malaysians to avoid large gatherings during the Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post shared on his Facebook, Dr Noor Hisham said that even though the COVID-19 situation in the country was gradually improving, large gatherings could cause another spike in cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-696x521.jpg 696w, https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042-1068x800.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210211-WA0042.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 has yet again refrained us from another public celebration and gathering during this Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEither we make it or break it during this celebration to control the situation. The onus and responsibility are on everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also reminded those who are celebrating to stay at home and celebrate with family members, and most importantly to protect the vulnerable people in the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;May the Almighty guide and protect us all to end this pandemic in time. Insha Allah (God willing). May this Year of the Ox brings you the strength to face and win every difficulty that comes in your way. Happy Chinese New Year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese community will celebrate Chinese New Year tomorrow and Saturday with strict COVID-19 prevention standard operating procedures (SOP) in place, the same as for the Aidilfitri and Deepavali celebrations last year.&#8211; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA): Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today urged Malaysians to avoid large gatherings during the Chinese New Year. In a post shared on his Facebook, Dr Noor Hisham said that even though the COVID-19 situation in the country was gradually improving, large gatherings could cause another spike in cases. \u201cCOVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[169,40,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-1355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news","8":"tag-cny","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-dr-noor-hisham-abdullah"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}