News about COVID-19

  KUALA LUMPUR (July 25) : Malaysia's daily Covid-19 cases – which charted new highs of 15,902 yesterday (July 24), and 15,573 cases the day before (July 23) – surged further to 17,045 today, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 24): Malaysia's daily Covid-19 cases, which hit a new record high of 15,573 yesterday, climbed further to 15,902 today.

SINGAPORE (July 24): Data from the island republic has revealed that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe sickness among those infected by the Covid-19 virus, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 24): Malaysia administered 462,242 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday (July 23), down 8.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has reversed its earlier decision to order manufacturers which operate in localities that were placed under EMCO to conduct Covid-19 tests on their employees twice a week.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 cases surged to a new high of 15,573 today — compared with 13,034 yesterday — in line with an increase in the testing rate, the Health Ministry said.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): A total of 20 venue operators have participated in the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme by offering their facilities as vaccine delivery centres (PPV), said the Malaysian Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers (Maceos).

TOKYO (July 23): The decision to ban spectators from the Japan Olympic games due to the fourth Covid-19 emergency in Tokyo could lead to more than a million hotel room cancellations in in the city, reported Bloomberg.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Covid-19 vaccine certificates should not mean the green light to roam freely, Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman said in response to reports that the government is mulling to lift travel restrictions for those who have received two doses of the vaccine.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Malaysia's daily number of administered Covid-19 vaccine doses topped 500,000 for the first time yesterday (July 22) at 507,050, compared with 446,052 the day before, according to the latest updates on Twitter today by the country's Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).