News about Covid

PETALING JAYA (March 31): The  Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) should be zeroized (as it was in 2007) till the end of the year to help boost the already soft real estate market in the country, said the Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, AFP reported state premier Volker Bouffier saying on Sunday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): American singer Barbra Streisand praised Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for speaking "common sense" and doing "everything that needed to be done to be ready for this virus", Singapore's Straits Times reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Malaysian designer Datuk Radzuan Radziwill has swapped making haute couture for sewing personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontliners during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Malay Mail reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): The COVID-19 infection rate in Malaysia is still stable, seeing there has been no “exponential spike” in new cases so far compared to other countries, says Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): The Edge Covid-19 Equipment Fund has started sending one million face masks and 35,000 personal protection suits to more than 30 designated hospitals — just one week after the fund was launched to raise money from Corporate Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): Under the second phase of the movement control order (MCO) rules to combat the spread of COVID-19, the authorities would limit the number of people in a privately owned car to “one person per car”.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): There were 156 new confirmed infections today, bringing the total number of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia to 2,626.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): With many businesses having grounded to a halt during the Movement Control Order period, Malaysian manufacturers are appealing to the government to double its wage subsidy scheme to RM12 billion from RM5.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): Malaysia small and medium enterprises (SMEs) said today they expect no cash inflow for at least three months due to the nation’s ongoing movement control order (MCO) to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.