{"id":8396,"date":"2021-12-03T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2021-12-03T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T06:36:43","slug":"covid-19-malaysia-records-first-omicron-case-involving-south-african-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/12\/03\/covid-19-malaysia-records-first-omicron-case-involving-south-african-student\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Malaysia records first Omicron case, involving South African student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has recorded its first case of the\u00a0COVID-19 Omicron variant, involving a South African student studying at a private university in Ipoh, Perak.<br \/>\nHealth Minister\u00a0Khairy Jamaluddin told reporters today that the 19-year-old female student arrived from South Africa via Singapore on Nov 19 and had undergone a\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0RT-PCR test upon entry at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).<br \/>\nHe said the individual was then subjected to the\u00a0Observation and Surveillance Order\u00a0under Section 15\u00a0of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) and completed a 10-day home quarantine alone at a residence prepared by the university.<br \/>\nShe was confirmed positive for the\u00a0variant of concern on Dec 2, Khairy said.<br \/>\nHe said the individual was fully vaccinated,\u00a0was asymptomatic, and had fully complied with the home quarantine order.\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has recorded its first case of the\u00a0COVID-19 Omicron variant, involving a South African student studying at a private university in Ipoh, Perak. Health Minister\u00a0Khairy Jamaluddin told reporters today that the 19-year-old female student arrived from South Africa via Singapore on Nov 19 and had undergone a\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0RT-PCR test upon entry at the Kuala Lumpur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8397,"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-8396","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\/8396","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=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}