Health

[ad_1] COMMENTARY | I am on the opposite political side of Johor Menteri Besar Hasni Mohammad, but I would not hesitate to give credit to what is due. Hasniabove) has lived up to governing with a healthy dose of bipartisanship, while Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who happens to be Johor’s …

[ad_1] Rizieq was the front man for the hardline ‘212’ movement before leaving Indonesia in 2017. (AP Photo) JAKARTA: Six suspected supporters of hardline Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab were killed in a clash with police on Monday, Jakarta Police Chief Fadil Imran told reporters. The incident occurred shortly after …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: The Ministry of Health registered 1,600 cases of Covid-19 and two deaths in the last 24 hours. Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were 1,033 recoveries, bringing the total number of discharged to 62,306. In a statement, Noor Hisham said the 1,600 cases bring …

[ad_1] WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden on Monday elected California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as secretary of health and human services as one of his administration’s top officials in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Biden, who will take office on January 20, also appointed Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of …

[ad_1] Workers unload a container containing the vaccines yesterday at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. (AP Image) JAKARTA: Indonesia has received 1.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinovac, authorities said, as the world’s fourth most populous nation struggles to control rising case rates. The doses arrived in Jakarta …

[ad_1] Major cinema operator GSC announced today that it will reopen some of its outlets in various parts of Malaysia next week, as authorities begin to ease closure restrictions in places like Malacca, Penang and Putrajaya. Among the nine branches it will reopen are its location in Penang’s Gurney Plaza …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 7): Tropicana Corp Bhd today announced a couple of boardroom changes, including the resignation of an independent director and the reassignment of one to a senior independent director position, while the company was asked to justify its recent acquisitions of RM78. 47 million in shares of …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (December 7): My EG Services Bhd (MyEG) and Yong Tai Bhd have become the latest two companies to jump on the vaccine distribution train. MyEG announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co Ltd (Zhifei) to obtain Malaysian …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Khairy Jamaluddin, has denied allegations that the government had used up all RM3bil of its allocation to buy vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer that could only cover 20% of the population. He said that RM3bil’s budget for Covid-19 vaccines …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR, December 7 – The Malaysian government’s Covid-19 vaccine agreements with the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and with the global COVAX facility do not involve third parties, Khairy Jamaluddin said today. The science, technology and innovation minister also explained that the government has so far only purchased Covid-19 …