{"id":19985,"date":"2023-04-21T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=19985"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T11:12:28","slug":"ahmad-zahid-urges-muslims-to-be-vigilant-about-new-covid-19-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2023\/04\/21\/ahmad-zahid-urges-muslims-to-be-vigilant-about-new-covid-19-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmad Zahid urges Muslims to be vigilant about new Covid -19 variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi\u00a0 has urged Muslims celebrating Aidilfitri in Malaysia to remain vigilant against the new COVID-19 variant XBB1.16, or\u00a0Arcturus.<br \/>\nHe said the infection rate of the new variant has yet to be identified.<br \/>\n\u201cI hope that we will be careful when we are celebrating,\u201d he told reporters after visiting an Aidilfitri sale in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman here today.<br \/>\nHe also advised those returning to their hometowns to be careful and focused while driving to avoid any untoward incidents.<br \/>\n\u201cLives are more important and I hope that road safety is prioritised,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\nChecks by Bernama at Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman found that many people were shopping during the last day of Ramadan.<br \/>\nAhmad Zahid also spent time mingling with shoppers, taking selfies with visitors and traders.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi\u00a0 has urged Muslims celebrating Aidilfitri in Malaysia to remain vigilant against the new COVID-19 variant XBB1.16, or\u00a0Arcturus. He said the infection rate of the new variant has yet to be identified. \u201cI hope that we will be careful when we are celebrating,\u201d he told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985","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=19985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}