Health

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: A staff member from the office of Lembah Pantai Deputy Fahmi Fadzil tested positive for Covid-19. Fahmi, who is also PKR’s director of strategic communications, said he and the rest of his office staff would self-quarantine at home. “One of my office staff members who just returned …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: The sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in Sabah should serve as an “alarm” against holding early general elections, the country’s leading medical experts warned. University of Malaya Academic Emeritus Datuk Dr. Lam Sai Kit said the recent Sabah state elections provided a useful lesson on what is …

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (AP) – Walt Disney Co said Tuesday that it will lay off about 28,000 employees, mostly at its theme parks in the United States, where attendance has been crushed by the coronavirus pandemic, especially in California, where Disneyland remains closed. About two-thirds of the laid off employees …

[ad_1] MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia plans to share the preliminary results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial based on the first six weeks of participant tracking, increasing the pace of an already frantic global race to end the pandemic. Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Institute that produced the Sputnik V …

[ad_1] SEREMBAN: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has enough support from MPs to become prime minister, says Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun. The PKR head of state said that if the Port Dickson MP did not have the support claimed, he would not have held a press conference to declare …

[ad_1] The Health Ministry said Saturday that all travelers returning from Sabah will need to undergo COVID-19 testing and self-quarantine at home. PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) proposes that Putrajaya consider placing people returning from Sabah who are unable to self-isolate at home in quarantine centers. MMA President …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (September 29): FBM KLCI closed down 7.76 points or 0.51% at 1,503.90 today, in part due to profit-taking in rubber glove manufacturers’ stocks as investors continue weighing the impact of the resurgence of global Covid-19 infections in global markets. At a glance, the KLCI closed lower after …

[ad_1] BANGKOK: Thailand will host its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector hit by coronavirus travel restrictions, a senior official said on Tuesday (September 29) . The first flight will have about 120 tourists from Guangzhou, …

[ad_1] Lee Lam Thye (second from right) at the MCPF forum in Penang today. With him are the state health director, Dr. Asmayani Khalib (right) and police chief Shahabuddin Abd Manan (left). GEORGE TOWN: A veteran social activist warns that a new wave of Covid-19 cases would emerge if general …

[ad_1] PUTRAJAYA: People returning from Sabah and testing negative for Covid-19 should self-quarantine at home, although this is not required, says Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah. The director general of Health said that the quarantine was not mandatory for them, but that it would be better for those with …