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NOW ROUNDING | These are the key headlines you may have missed, shortly.
1. Minister of the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri (over) is the first Malaysian cabinet member to test positive for Covid-19, prompting several other ministers and senior public officials to undergo quarantine.
2. Among those to be quarantined are Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Defense Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Inspector General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador. Others who attended a meeting with Zulkifli recently included the director general of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
3. Before testing positive, Zulkifli had attended events in five states and territories, including three mosques and three universities.
4. Several court cases have been postponed due to key individuals in the trials being quarantined, including the 1MDB trial against Najib Abdul Razak, the corruption trial against Rosmah Mansor, and the government’s lawsuit against the National Feedlot Corporation.
5. Former Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor may have settled a tax claim of RM57.17 million against him from the Internal Revenue Board for only RM40.3 million.
6. Advocacy group Gerakan Media Merdeka has urged politicians to be more forthcoming about their Covid-19 status after a New Straits Times Press Bhd reporter tested positive for the disease.
7. Sources claimed that PKR President Anwar Ibrahim still has sufficient support to form a new government and is awaiting an audience with Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
8. Former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said he is likely to run in the next general election, less than two weeks after announcing that he will not run.
9. DAP is appealing to the Registrar of Societies to be allowed to postpone its party’s congress for six to 12 months in light of the current peak in Covid-19 cases.
10. The odor contamination that triggered the latest round of water contamination in Selangor, which led to the closure of the Sungai Semenyih and Bukit Tampoi water treatment plants, is believed to have been due to a major cleaning at a duck farm. and geese near Sungai Pajam, Negeri Sembilan.
