The former prime minister immediately urged the people to sign up for the immunisation programme.

This is because existing PCR kits use multiple targets to detect variants, even though that person can be asymptomatic.

Selangor recorded the highest number of registered individuals at 991,181.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the drop in the number of new cases from 2,154 recorded yesterday brought the cumulative case count to 311,777

Group managing director Datuk Jimmy Doh Jee Ming: To me, this is only the beginning. Today, our presence is mostly in Perak. We still have so many other states to go into.

US-based Carlyle Group and Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners “are believed to be the front runners…”

The yellow level refers to a daily maximum temperature of 35 to 37 degrees Celsius for at least three consecutive days.

Lim, who is WCT executive chairman, had prior to this round of buying, acquired 3.36 million WCT shares via eight transactions in the open market since Feb 18.

“The council had announced the e-billing method to customers last year through various platforms such as MBSJ billboards, flyer and pamphlet distributions to areas under MBSJ as well as through Residents Representative Council.”

"As the world may remember…after the Second World War, the world experienced mass trauma because the Second World War affected many, many lives," said WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus at a biweekly press webinar