News about COVID-19

MIRI (July 16): The city's mayor Adam Yii wants quick action after 13 new Covid-19 patients-under-investigation (PUIs) were reported in the city “over the past day”, reported The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Malaysia recorded five new Covid-19 cases as of noon today, of which four were local transmissions while one was an imported case involving a foreigner who is allowed to enter the country for work, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): People shopping in England must wear face masks from July 24 onwards, the BBC reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) is forecasting a 75% drop in tourist arrivals for 2020, as compared to the preceding year, given the gloomy sentiment on international travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported four new Covid-19 cases today — all imported, involving three Malaysians and one foreigner — raising the country's confirmed infections to 8,729.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd (HLIB) has downgraded the Malaysian real estate investment trust (M-REIT) sector to neutral from overweight as the Covid-19 pandemic impairs REIT earnings across most assets.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Knight Frank Malaysia expects the Covid-19 pandemic to exert downward pressure on rental and occupancy levels in the oversupplied Klang Valley office market as the gap between supply and demand continues to widen amid weaker office demand and shrinking pool of tenants, it said in its latest Real Estate Highlights for 1H2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 13): Lin Honghan from China and Greta Elsa Nurtjahja from Indonesia have been picked as the Asia Young Designers of the Year 2019/2020 (AYDA).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported 14 new Covid-19 cases in the country as at noon today, raising the total number of cases to 8,718 so far.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 11): The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported eight new Covid-19 cases and one fatality in the country as at noon today.