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.

Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said Malaysia, under the leadership of Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, was one of the countries where the government's actions in controlling the spread of the virus, was well-accepted by the people, receiving global recognition following a survey.

Closer to home, even though Putrajaya lowered the foreign ownership price threshold in Budget 2020 to RM600,000 from RM1 million effective this year, state governments have jurisdiction over property and they have their own price caps in this matter.

The management reorganisation calls for privately held AEON BiG to relocate its offices from Subang Jaya, Selangor, to AEON Co’s headquarters at Taman Maluri, Kuala Lumpur, beginning next month.

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

The global integrated engineering services provider said the 68.78ha yard had the capacity to perform steel fabrication of offshore platforms and other structures of up to 50,000 tonnes.

He said the move was necessary as the country's pineapple industry was booming and last year alone, Malaysia exported RM419 million worth of pineapple-based products.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the rt-PCR test was very sensitive in detecting the presence of the virus’ protein.

The accreditation programme is aimed at boosting compliance of the SOPs in line with the state’s efforts to educate the importance of preventive and sanitisation routines in controlling spread of the coronavirus.

Its director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the man in question is a Pakistani national who works at a barbershop in Kuala Lumpur.