Among the new infections, 98.2% or 15,386 cases are from Categories 1 and 2 while 283 cases or 1.8% are in Categories 3, 4 and 5

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said in a statement today that this will involve recipients of the moratorium from the bottom 50% of all Malaysians, in terms of income classification, for a period of three months in the fourth quarter of 2021

Datuk Eddie Ong Choo Meng already has a diverse portfolio of businesses, including glove manufacturing, agrochemicals, furniture, plastic and industrial products

Dewan Rakyat Speaker, Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun said several areas have been agreed in the House Committee meeting yesterday, among them, the SOPs on movements of house members and staff and the need to undergo compulsory RTK Antigen Saliva test randomly every Monday and Wednesday

NFO outlets were ordered to close temporarily with the implementation of the third Movement Control Order (MCO 3.0) with effect from June 1. The last draw before the suspension was on May 31.

Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, announced recently that cinemas in States under Phase One of the National Recovery Plan (PPN) could reopen for the fully vaccinated from Sept 9 but at 50% capacity.

The Japanese embassy here issued the advisory to Japanese nationals in Malaysia regarding the possibility of a terrorist threat in Southeast Asia

Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM) director Prof Dr David Perera said this variant of concern (VOC) represented 99% of the cases undergoing genomic sequencing on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV 2) that IHCM had carried out

The fine was imposed by Butterworth Sessions Court Judge Noor Aini Yusoff after the project developer pleaded guilty to non-compliance with the conditions of the EIA approval.

Sarawak remained the state with the highest number of cases at 3,522, albeit 33.4% less than the record 5,291 posted yesterday.