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Istana Negara said in a statement that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has advised citizens of Malaysia to be calm and patient in facing the current situation in the country while waiting for the outcome from the King and Conference of Rulers’ discussion on the proposals.

Today's number of new cases is the highest since the pandemic first struck Malaysia in January.

An additional 4,281 beds had been added since Oct 9 — from 6,795 beds previously.

General-secretary J Solomon said thousands of lowly-paid workers had either lost their jobs or are clinging to it, making them unable to service their loans at this time.

Mohd Azmin Hashim, who is the executive director of Worldbay Network — a company that specialised and procured communications surveillance equipment to intercept mobile phone conversations and text messages — testified that he had lent his apartment to Datuk Ruslin Jusoh, the deputy director of the Research Division under the Prime Minister’s Department in 2018 to keep documents.

MACC officer Muhammad Nizhar Kadir said US$4.07 million was confiscated at an apartment in Cyberjaya, and RM220,000 from a house in Terengganu, under an MACC raid operation code-named 'Ops Dinar 2', in August that year.

Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Iskandar Ahmad told the High Court they will prove that she had misappropriated these funds meant for the government which she received in her capacity as director-general of the Research Division of the Prime Minister's Department.

The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial is set to continue today with its chief executive officer (CEO) Mohd Hazem Abdul Rahman still on the witness stand.

Vell Paari made the application in a suit he filed against Samy Vellu to determine whether the former MIC president's mental state would cause him to be unable to manage himself and his affairs.

Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s appeal against his conviction in the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial will commence on Feb 15, 2021.