News about Covid

PETALING JAYA (July 16): Developers should rethink their building strategies for high-rise strata properties especially in terms of density in relation to safety and disaster management issues.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 16): A new Covid-19 cluster has been detected in Mambong, Sarawak with two positive cases originating from a company located there, the Ministry of Health said today.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 16): Three new Covid-19 cases were reported by the Ministry of Health today, raising the total number of infected patients nationwide slightly to 8,737 with 77 active cases.

MIRI (July 16): The city's mayor Adam Yii wants quick action after 13 new Covid-19 patients-under-investigation (PUIs) were reported in the city “over the past day”, reported The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Malaysia recorded five new Covid-19 cases as of noon today, of which four were local transmissions while one was an imported case involving a foreigner who is allowed to enter the country for work, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): People shopping in England must wear face masks from July 24 onwards, the BBC reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) is forecasting a 75% drop in tourist arrivals for 2020, as compared to the preceding year, given the gloomy sentiment on international travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported four new Covid-19 cases today — all imported, involving three Malaysians and one foreigner — raising the country's confirmed infections to 8,729.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd (HLIB) has downgraded the Malaysian real estate investment trust (M-REIT) sector to neutral from overweight as the Covid-19 pandemic impairs REIT earnings across most assets.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 14): Knight Frank Malaysia expects the Covid-19 pandemic to exert downward pressure on rental and occupancy levels in the oversupplied Klang Valley office market as the gap between supply and demand continues to widen amid weaker office demand and shrinking pool of tenants, it said in its latest Real Estate Highlights for 1H2020.