Editor's Pick

DONE DEAL: Condominium at Li Villas, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Noteworthy:
Freehold
Fully furnished unit with golf course view
Built-up: 1,765 sq ft
Three bedrooms; four bathrooms
Facilities: Badminton court, basketball court, squash and tennis court, gym, Jacuzzi, sauna, swimming pool, children playground, in-house cafe and mini-mart
Amenities: International schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, shopping malls
● Easy accessibility via Damansara-Puchong Highway (LDP), Penchala Link, Federal Highway, New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) and SPRINT Highway

When: April 2021

Selangor vaccine programme targets 1.25 million recipients

Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said 250,000 people in Selangor will be vaccinated for free under the SelVAX Community category, while the SelVAX Industry category, which is the voluntary paid vaccination programme for interested companies, is targeting to vaccinate one million workers, including foreign workers

Good public health practices needed, alongside vaccination to defeat Covid-19 - Experts

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general for access to medicines and health products, Dr Mariangela Simao, in a news briefing from the agency’s Geneva headquarters on June 25, had stated vaccine alone won’t stop community transmission. “When you have a community transmission ongoing, people need to continue to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces, ensure hand hygiene, the physical distance, avoid crowding, even if you’re vaccinated,” said Simao.

Death toll in Florida condo collapse rises to 12

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cara made the announcement that one more body had been pulled from the wreckage since Monday. She said there were still 149 people unaccounted for.

Is Malaysia capable of producing its own vaccine?

Dr Nurul Yuziana Mohd Yusof: As we see in the current COVID-19 situation, it is a world health crisis, regardless of developed countries or poor countries. Therefore, as a developing country, we can reduce our dependence on external vaccine by developing a local vaccine manufacturing industry to enable our society to have direct access to vaccines