National Vaccine Institute director, Nakorn Premsri: If everything goes to plan, the production of the vaccine will start next year

“This year, the country is facing the Covid-19 pandemic and hospital staff are treating Covid-19 patients. Therefore, we really hope everyone can adhere to the social distancing regulation and stay at home although we are celebrating Aidilfitri.”

Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said a total of 300 of them would attend the course in Sepang, Selangor for a month while another 60 would be sent to a training centre in Kuantan, Pahang for three months at the expense of the ministry.

As part of the move to curb the spread of Covid-19, the government has allowed the visits to be only on the first day of the Aidilfitri celebrations, on condition that the standard operating procedure (SOP) is observed

The number of active cases today rose to 1,185 from 1,163 yesterday.

“The current Covid-19 crisis has exposed this major weakness in our society, [therefore] confirming the findings of the study. It also showed that [most] workers have enough money for only a week if they lose their jobs overnight, the criteria for the vulnerability classification,” said Majlis Tindakan Ekonomi Melayu (MTEM) senior fellow Azlan Awang.

He said that out of the 48 cases, four were imported cases who contracted the virus abroad while 44 more were local transmissions.

Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said his ministry had seen online sales of fast-moving consumer goods growing by 40% due to the pandemic.

During the six-month period of the moratorium, the country’s largest Islamic cooperative bank was refraining from collecting about RM1 billion every month, he said.

KPDNHEP in a statement yesterday said the compound was offered to the hospital yesterday for the offence it had committed under Section 11 of the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011.