[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: When the country’s first two climbers, Datuk M. Magendran and Datuk N. Mohanadas, set foot on the top of Mount Everest more than two decades ago, they communicated with walkie-talkies and had to wait more than 10 days to process the photos they took. . assumed the …
Read More »Accept the new rule, officials said
[ad_1] MELAKA: Ensuring that the Covid-19 pandemic does not hamper efforts to empower the public sector to be an efficient, transparent and people-friendly service system, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The Prime Minister said that the responsibility of public officials now is to make the new rule a culture for …
Read More »Right time for economic reform
[ad_1] CLICK TO ENLARGE PETALING JAYA: The time has come for Malaysia to undertake economic reforms to ensure that the country remains on track to become a high-income economy amid structural problems compounded by the devastating Covid-19 pandemic. Economists urge the government to reset its economic strategy and policies to …
Read More »Everton vs. Man City postponed due to COVID-19
[ad_1] Manchester City’s visit to Goodison Park to face Everton in the Premier League on Monday was postponed due to COVID-19, the clubs confirmed. City also confirmed that their training camp will be closed for an “undetermined period”, and further testing is required before the players can train. The game …
Read More »We wanted full OLS for the third wave, says Noor Hisham
[ad_1] The CMCO prevented up to four million Malaysians from becoming infected with Covid-19, says Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah. PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry wanted to implement a full motion control order regime to control a third wave of Covid-19 infections, Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said today. However, …
Read More »Conditional MCO Has Successfully Kept Covid-19 Under Control, Says Health DG
[ad_1] PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): The conditional motion control order (MCO) has successfully slowed the spread of Covid-19 in the country, says Director General of Health Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said that without the implementation of the conditional MCO, some four million Malaysians were expected to have been infected …
Read More »Covid-19: Governor of the Thai province of the infected hotspot
[ad_1] BANGKOK (AP): The governor of a province at the center of a sprawling Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand was confirmed infected with the coronavirus after meeting with public health officials, including the deputy prime minister. Sunday’s meeting attended by the Governor of Samut Sakhon, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and …
Read More »Religious school cordoned off after 2 women found infected
[ad_1] Police set up barricades around a religious school in Kelantan on Sunday. (Photo by Bernama) KOTA BHARU: Nine policemen were stationed today at the entrance and exit of Pondok Daril Naim, a religious school near Melor, after two female residents tested positive for Covid-19. Kelantan Deputy Chief of Police …
Read More »Delayed Transfer of COVID-19 Cases to Hospitals Due to ‘Logistics’, Rather than Lack of Beds: Malaysia’s Director General of Health
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Ministry of Health said on Monday (December 28) that it still had the capacity to accommodate COVID-19 patients, while acknowledging that there were logistical issues in transferring positive cases from their homes to hospitals for quarantine and treatment. In his daily press conference on Monday, Health …
Read More »Covid-19: 1,594 new cases, three deaths today
[ad_1] PUTRAJAYA: The number of Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours remained in four digits after 1,594 new cases were reported today, with three deaths recorded involving locals. Tan Sri Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country’s infection count now stands at 106,690 cases, with the …
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