News about COVID-19

SINGAPORE (March 17): Singapore's minister for trade and industry Chan Chun Sing said that the city state would not run out of food, seeking to allay concerns after neighbouring Malaysia announced it was closing its borders to prevent a further spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The government has imposed a restricted movement order nationwide from March 18 to March 31 to address the COVID-19 outbreak, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): Owing to the spike of COVID-19 in the country, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that education centres, government and private offices are to shut down from March 18 to 31.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The government has urged Muslims to pause activities in mosques for 10 days from tomorrow until March 26 as a precaution against the COVID-19 outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The Ministry of Health is ordering 800 new units of medical ventilators for treatment of critical COVID-19 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (March16): The COVID-19 outbreak has now come under the purview of the National Security Council (MKN), said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): All Celcom Axiata Bhd employees with non-critical operation roles will work from home starting tomorrow.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced that as at 12pm today, there were 125 new confirmed Covid-19 cases, bringing the tally to 553 in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): The Malaysian Bar has called on the federal government to institute a lockdown of the nation due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 16): Sarawak has recorded 34 confirmed cases of Covid-19 over the last three days, 29 of which are imported cases, the State Disaster Management Committee said today.