News about COVID-19

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 2): The first day of 2021 saw 1,388 individuals detained for violating the Movement Control Order (MCO), the highest number of violations in a day thus far, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 2): Malaysia recorded today its highest daily number of persons who have recovered from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic at 3,321, which brought the total number of recoveries to 94,492 or 80.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 2): Co-workers and service partners of IKEA Damansara were tested positive in one of the company’s scheduled routine tests recently, said IKEA Damansara in its Facebook today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 1): Malaysia reported today 2,068 newly-confirmed Covid-19 cases, which brought the cumulative total number of infected individuals in the country to 115,078 so far.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 1): A senior MCA staff at the party’s headquarters, Wisma MCA, has tested positive for Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 31): Malaysia reported a new record high of 2,525 Covid-19 cases today, about half or 1,205 from Selangor, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 30): Malaysia today recorded 1,870 new Covid-19 cases with six more deaths, pushing the cumulative confirmed infections in the country to 110,485, and the death toll to 463.

BEIJING (Dec 30): After reported double digit local transmitted cases, the Chinese capital of Beijing has conducted mass testing and lockdowns of some residential areas as preventive measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reported Straits Times.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 29): Daily new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia went up again today to 1,925 from 1,594 yesterday.

LOS ANGELES (Dec 29): The most populous county in the United States - Los Angeles, has seen nine to ten people tested positive for Covid-19 every minute, reported the Xinhua news agency.