{"id":6178,"date":"2020-10-02T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2020-10-02T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:59:56","slug":"postpone-large-scale-events-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6178","title":{"rendered":"Postpone large-scale events &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, Oct 2 &#8212; The Ministry of Health (MoH) has recommended that all large-scale events and mass gatherings be postponed following the increase in COVID-19 positive cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said mass gatherings should be avoided to break the infection chain of the deadly virus in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg\" alt=\"health\" class=\"wp-image-4032\" width=\"458\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg 941w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-159x100.jpg 159w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-350x220.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-800x503.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If mass gatherings or conferences need to be held, each organizer must ensure that the standard operating procedures (SOP) set are complied with by all parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are still in the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) period and everyone must comply with the SOP set by the National Security Council,&#8221; he told a press conference here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham said there was no recommendation from the ministry to limit activities in the social sector so far, although the daily COVID-19 cases showed an increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1886027\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, Oct 2 &#8212; The Ministry of Health (MoH) has recommended that all large-scale events&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7574,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",941,592,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4-768x483.jpg",640,403,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",640,403,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",941,592,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",941,592,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",941,592,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",941,592,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dr-noor-hisham-4.jpg",720,453,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=7574\" rel=\"category\">COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}