{"id":9255,"date":"2022-01-04T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2022-01-04T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:04:21","slug":"hotel-worker-sparks-new-covid-19-cluster-in-sabah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/01\/04\/hotel-worker-sparks-new-covid-19-cluster-in-sabah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel worker sparks new COVID-19 cluster in Sabah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: A new COVID-19 cluster was detected in Sabah today, originating from a hotel worker in Kundasang, Ranau, said state Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun.<br \/>\nHe said the cluster is known as the\u00a0Jalan Kem Bina\u00a0Ranau Cluster.<br \/>\n&#8220;The index case is a 59-year-old male worker of the hotel who was found positive through symptomatic screening at Hospital Ranau on Dec\u00a023,\u00a02021.<br \/>\n&#8220;Screenings done on\u00a070 close contacts, his colleagues and family members turned up another 39 positive\u00a0COVID-19 cases, including six which were reported today,\u00a0bringing the cumulative figure to\u00a040 cases,\u201d he said\u00a0in a statement tonight.<br \/>\n&#8220;Compared to yesterday, there was a slight drop of four cases with 161 new cases reported in Sabah today,\u201d\u00a0said Masidi, the state government spokesman on COVID-19.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: A new COVID-19 cluster was detected in Sabah today, originating from a hotel worker in Kundasang, Ranau, said state Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun. He said the cluster is known as the\u00a0Jalan Kem Bina\u00a0Ranau Cluster. &#8220;The index case is a 59-year-old male worker of the hotel who was found positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9256,"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-9255","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\/9255","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=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}