News about Covid

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): US President Donald Trump (pictured) has described the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on his country, BBC reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): Researchers in China have revealed that the novel coronavirus causing the Covid-19 disease has been found in the semen of infected men, reported the UK-based The Guardian newspaper yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): South Korea, the poster child of how a country can control the Covid-19 pandemic, is now getting ready for an “inevitable” second wave of the disease after it was discovered that an infected man in Seoul went on club hopping spree recently, reported Asia News Network (ANN).

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): The number of green zones in Kuala Lumpur rose to seven — Alam Damai, Bangsar, Bukit Damansara, Datuk Keramat, Kepong, Mont Kiara and Connaught — from six previously, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

While Parliament in the Republic of Singapore has promptly passed an Act titled: Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act, 2020 (ACT) and was immediately assented to by the President and gazetted on April 9, 2020 and operational April 7, 2020, Malaysia is deferring the tabling of the bill to the 2nd Parliamentary sitting between July 27, 2020 to Sept 10, 2020.

The once-crowded shopping centres in the country lie quiet and almost empty as most business operations have been halted since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO) period on March 18.

The once-crowded shopping centres in the country lie quiet and almost empty as most business operations have been halted since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO) period on March 18.

On April 29, 2020, the National Property Information Centre (Napic) of the Finance Ministry’s Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) released the 2019 Malaysia Property Market Report revealing that the market which has been in a prolonged slowdown, had grown by 4.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has assured that the country's healthcare system will be able to cope, should there be a surge in new daily Covid-19 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has detected a new cluster of Covid-19 cases at a Cheras mall here, involving security personnel.