News about COVID-19

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): The authorities will not use daily Covid-19 infection numbers “as a metric” to relax curbs for the various states once they enter the second phase of the National Recovery Plan (NRP), Bloomberg reported  Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz (pictured) saying today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): Malaysia today has granted conditional approval for the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): Vaccinating children against Covid-19 may not be a priority at the moment as it is proven that they rarely contract severe diseases, said Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease at Universiti Malaya Professor Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 5): A total of 494,214 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were given yesterday (Aug 4), up from 483,368 the day before.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 4): Malaysia reported 19,819 new Covid-19 cases today — a record number of daily infections — up 15.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 4): Malaysia administered 483,368 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday (Aug 3), up from 468,526 jabs on the previous day.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 3): Malaysia’s new Covid-19 infections climbed to 17,105 today from 15,764 yesterday, raising the country's total cases to 1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 3): About six million individuals in the Klang Valley have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as at Aug 2, according to the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).

PETALING JAYA (Aug 2): The popular tourist destination Train Night Market Ratchada in Bangkok is believed to be closing for good, according to Kapook, a Thai language lifestyle site on Saturday (July 31).

  KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): Malaysia reported the highest number of Covid-19 deaths today at 219 – the eight straight day that daily fatalities stayed in the three-digit range.