News about COVID-19

PETALING JAYA (April 22): Today marks the first day of Datuk Azmir Merican Azmi Merican's tenure at Sime Darby Property Bhd as group managing director.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): The number of Covid-19 infections in Kuala Lumpur exceeded the 1,000-mark with the tally at 1,021 cases — the second highest in the country among all states and federal territories as of noon yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): An Indonesian politician who has become so angry with people going against lockdown regulations in his country that she has proposed locking them in a “haunted house”, AFP reported yesterday Sragen regency head Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati has announced such a policy following the influx of people to the area under her charge after lockdowns in Jakarta and other major Javanese cities.

PETALING JAYA (April 22): Many people who need to go out to work and earn daily wages have been affected by the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia which was imposed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

GEORGE TOWN (April 22): This durian season in Penang will be different from before, with roadside durian stalls barred during the movement control order (MCO), the Malay Mail reported today.

SINGAPORE (April 22): Long queues were seen at bubble tea shops in Singapore after the country’s Ministry of Trade and Industry announced that all standalone food and beverage outlet are also in the temporary shutdown list until May 4, starting from today, reported China Press.

LANGKAWI (April 22): Langkawi Wildlife Park launched an adoption programme to raise funds to help cover daily expenses of the 150 types of animal in the park.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): The attorney general of the state of Missouri in the US, Eric Schmitt, filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government yesterday “claiming” that China’s denials and cover-ups led to the coronavirus spreading all over the globe and causing “trillions of dollars” in economic damage, reported the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): US President Trump said on Tuesday that he would order a temporary halt in issuing green cards to prevent people from immigrating to the United States, but he backed away from plans to suspend guest worker programmes after business groups exploded in anger at the threat of losing access to foreign labor, the New York Times (NYT) reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): The stress and anxiety brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted almost everyone on the planet and it looks like married couples are not spared.