News about COVID-19

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PETALING JAYA (March 31): The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the Hong Kong retail industry, but some of the landlords there have reduced rental to help their tenants survive the outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Beginning April 3, Malaysians returning from abroad will be brought by the authorities straight to quarantine centres from the airport to undergo their compulsory 14-day quarantine at designed centres, the Malay Mail reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): It is not fair to say that many people living and working Menara City One (pictured) because many foreigners are living there, said a spokesman from the Menara City One management company.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Most businesses will not be able to qualify for the wage subsidy scheme in the government's Prihatin stimulus plan, said research firm Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research in a Malaysiakini report .

PETALING JAYA (March 31): The  Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) should be zeroized (as it was in 2007) till the end of the year to help boost the already soft real estate market in the country, said the Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, AFP reported state premier Volker Bouffier saying on Sunday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): American singer Barbra Streisand praised Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for speaking "common sense" and doing "everything that needed to be done to be ready for this virus", Singapore's Straits Times reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Malaysian designer Datuk Radzuan Radziwill has swapped making haute couture for sewing personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontliners during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Malay Mail reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): The COVID-19 infection rate in Malaysia is still stable, seeing there has been no “exponential spike” in new cases so far compared to other countries, says Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured).