{"id":13885,"date":"2020-04-21T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2020-07-10T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T07:06:34","slug":"penang-state-government-prioritizes-post-covid-19-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/penang-state-government-prioritizes-post-covid-19-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Penang State Government Prioritizes Post Covid-19 Rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Penang.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13886\"\/><figcaption>Image Source: BuletinMutiara ; Alissala Thian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penang state government through the Penang People&#8217;s Aid Package recently announced a special Covid-19 allocation of RM 30,000 to each assemblyman to be distributed to their constituents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Batu Uban assemblyman A. Kumaresan thanked the Penang Chief Minister for his assistance in ensuring the aid reached disavowed communities and characterized the RM 30,000 donation as timely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aid to 380 JKM recipients&nbsp;and 400 affected families in the Batu Uban State Assembly region have been&nbsp;successfully&nbsp;distributed. 500 more recipients named by MPKK can also expect to receive help soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief Minister, Y.A.B. Mr. Chow Kon Yeow who was in attendance at the event held at Bukit Jambul, stressed his commitment to helping Penang recover from the aftereffects of Covid-19 and the subsequent Movement Control Order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penang Chief Minister has reiterated the&nbsp;continued&nbsp;efforts on revitalizing the state&#8217;s economy. He understands that the future of Penang is subject to the extent to which the state&#8217;s economy can be restored after the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Many communities are affected by this continuing pandemic, both in terms of  income, jobs and their ability to financially recuperate. Therefore, at the state government level, we have placed a strong emphasis on public health and&nbsp;economic health. \u201cOur focus must be on the rehabilitation of our state post Covid-19\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Penang state government through the Penang People&#8217;s Aid Package recently announced a special Covid-19 allocation of RM 30,000 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14636,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions\/14636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}