{"id":2536,"date":"2021-03-16T19:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2021-03-16T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:11:09","slug":"covid-1063-new-cases-on-march-16-lowest-for-the-year-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/03\/16\/covid-1063-new-cases-on-march-16-lowest-for-the-year-health-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 1,063 new cases on March 16, lowest for the year &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":n4\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":nm\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 1,063 new COVID-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours, which is the lowest figure reported so far this year, to take the country\u2019s case tally to 326,034.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that of today\u2019s total, four were imported cases infected abroad while 1,059 were local transmissions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAll four imported cases were foreigners while the local transmissions involved 814 Malaysians and 245 foreigners,\u201d he said in a statement on COVID-19 today.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said there were 1,365 recoveries, taking the total number of recoveries to 309,612.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dr Noor Hisham also said that the three states with the highest number of cases were Selangor (323), Sarawak (183) and Penang (175).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8212; BERNAMA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\":mx\" class=\"hq gt a10\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 1,063 new COVID-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours, which is the lowest figure reported so far this year, to take the country\u2019s case tally to 326,034. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that of today\u2019s total, four were imported cases infected abroad while 1,059 were local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2537,"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-2536","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\/2536","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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}