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[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS (Xinhua): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched a global call on Friday (May 8) to tackle and counter “the hate virus”: hate speech related to the Covid-19 pandemic . “Covid-19 does not care who we are, where we live, what we believe or any other distinction. We …

[ad_1] KUCHING: Sarawak today recorded four new positive cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19), said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas. He said that of these four cases, two involved Kuching health workers, while the other two were from Tebedu. With these two cases involving health workers, this …

[ad_1] (Reuters) – A 5-year-old boy died in New York of a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be related to the new coronavirus, highlighting a potential new risk for children in the pandemic, the governor said on Friday. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo said in a daily briefing that the boy died …

[ad_1] Mohd Shafie Apdal KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government has allowed more sectors to operate in light of the state entering the fifth phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO). In a statement released today, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal announced a list of food and retail sector …

[ad_1] Security forces are rolling out barbed wire fences in the old town of Petaling Jaya, near the local wet market in Jalan Othman. A police officer Malaysiakini spoke to indicated that there would also be road closures and roadblocks layered around the area. Previously, the PJ Old Town market …

[ad_1] Asia More than 600,000 Malaysians are now unemployed. FILE PHOTO: A family jogs in a park near the Petronas Twin Towers when Malaysia reopens most businesses after a motion control order was imposed to combat the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19 ), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May …

[ad_1] Canberra is caught in a diplomatic squeeze between the US and Beijing, its major trade partner. (Reuters pic) SYDNEY: Australian officials are frustrated that their push for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus is being undermined by the White House, which has sought to link the outbreak …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: The Selangor police will continue to take steps to ensure that the public complies with the conditional movement control order (MCO). Selangor CID chief Communications Assistant Datuk Fadzil Ahmat said his operations were still ongoing to ensure that the Covid-19 chain of infection is broken. “With the …

[ad_1] A busy road in Kota Kinabalu appears deserted due to the MCO. Sabah decided today to reopen the construction, maintenance and forestry sectors. KOTA KINABALU: Warisan has responded to Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) for his criticism of Prime Minister Shafie Apdal, who the party claimed had made a “U-turn” …

[ad_1] BEIJING: Taiwan will fail to join a key meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) amid efforts to control the new coronavirus as its efforts are based on policy, not health problems, he said China on Friday (May 8). The Taiwanese autonomous government has been lobbying to attend, as …