News about COVID-19

KUALA LUMPUR (July 28): About 83% of the adult population of the Klang Valley had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as of yesterday (July 27), according to latest tweets by the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 28): Nearly 83% of the Covid-19 patients under categories 3, 4 and 5 reported yesterday have not been vaccinated, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

PETALING JAYA (July 27): Third booster shot of Covid-19 vaccine could help to increase immune response as a finding showed that antibodies induced by CoronaVac, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, declines below a key threshold about six months after the recipients took the second dose, reported Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 27): Malaysia's daily Covid-19 cases rose to 16,117 on Tuesday — the second highest daily figure — from 14,516 the day before, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Malaysia recorded the highest number of daily fatalities at 207 on Monday, pushing the national death toll linked to the coronavirus to 8,201.

BERLIN (July 26): The German government is looking at imposing more restrictions on the people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 to curb the spread of the super-contagious Delta variant, reported Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Malaysia's cumulative number of administered Covid-19 vaccine doses topped 17 million as of yesterday (July 25) at 17.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): The scheduled hearing today of Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi's application to set aside the interim injunction imposed on him by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has now been deferred until Sept 17.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 25): The Democratic Action Party (DAP) has launched a policy position paper today, where it proposed the government should change the aim of its pandemic management strategy to living with Covid-19, instead of completely eradicating the disease.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 25) : Malaysia administered 417,738 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday (July 24), down 9.