News by THEEDGEMARKETS.COM

Of the 41 new cases today, 38 were local transmissions, with 32 of them involving foreign workers while the six remaining cases involved Malaysians.

Najib’s lawyer Tan Sri Shafee Abdullah had earlier told the court of the defence’s application to recuse Sri Ram in the case. Shafee argued that the matter should be resolved first because if the court were to proceed with the trial, it would be as if the application is non-existent or trivialised.

Chief Statistician Malaysia Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the closure of operations for most businesses during the Movement Control Order (MCO) has impacted employment and job seekers could hardly find jobs.

Proton said these prices will be effective for the duration of the incentive period of six months from June 15 announced by the government as a measure designed to boost the economy as the country emerges from its Covid-19-induced lockdown.

A member of Najib's defence team came down with high fever and is undertaking Covid-19 testing.

He was responding to questions from reporters yesterday about an outbreak of infections that has been linked to a wholesale market in Beijing, China, where traces of Covid-19 were reportedly detected on the chopping board of a seller of imported salmon.

The assertion came in an affidavit Apandi affirmed on Friday in support of Najib's application to remove Sri Ram, a former Federal Court judge, from prosecuting him in the 1MDB audit tampering trial

Of the six locally transmitted cases, four involved Bangladeshi construction workers from what is now known as the 'second construction site cluster in Kuala Lumpur', which was first detected late last month when 44 workers were found positive.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah: At this juncture, we do not have any barbershop cluster, as we have only one positive case reported so far.

This brings Covid-19' tally in the country to 8,445, according to Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.