News about COVID-19

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5): Property developer Yong Tai Bhd has entered into a heads of agreement (HoA) with China-based Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co Ltd (SZKT) for a proposed collaboration on the development and exclusive commercialisation of the latter's inactivated Covid-19 vaccine in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 4): Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham today announced eight new Covid-19 clusters with a total of 104 infections, while four clusters have been declared ended as no new cases recorded within 28 days.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 4): Malaysia today logged 1,141 new Covid-19 cases, raising the country's cumulative confirmed infections above the 70,000 mark to 70,236, according to health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 4): A number of K-pop stars have recently been tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, resulting in a spate of tests for others who were close contacts, Korea Herald reported today.

Since the start of the year, some 1,000 staff working for Malaysia-listed YTL Corp have been operating out of YTL Tower, along Jalan Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): The Ministry of Health (MOH) detected four new Covid-19 clusters, of which three are in Sabah and one in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases climbed above the 1,000-level again at 1,075 today from 851 reported yesterday, with 11 new deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 3): Gloria Estefan (pictured), the mega-pop star of the 1980s and 90s, revealed that she was infected by Covid-19 and spent much of November in isolation, reported AP today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 2): Malaysia today logged 851 new confirmed Covid-19 cases, lower than the 1,472 infections reported yesterday, while two more have died from the pandemic, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 2): The UK is the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for public use, reported numerous media today.