News about Covid

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): The Health Ministry has designated a total of 33 hospitals nationwide, to treat COVID-19 patients.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): Automatic moratorium on loan repayments will be granted to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and individuals — an additional measure taken by Bank Negara Malaysia to relieve the burden on businesses and households that are expected to be affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): Mulpha International Bhd, which is involved in real estate, hospitality and education, has warned that revenue and earnings across its hotel and education assets will be materially impacted from mid-March, as a result of recently-introduced travel bans in Malaysia, Australia, the UK and New Zealand, amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): A former senior executive of The Edge, Anne Tong, has rubbished racist views attributed to her in a Whatsapp message, which has been making the rounds on the text messaging platform.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Malaysia rose 106 as of noon today to a total 1,624, according to the Ministry of Health.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): Business sentiment among Malaysian companies dived to a new low in the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), sinking into the contractionary zone of -21.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) is temporarily closing about 130 branches and service centres out of a total of more than 350 until March 31 during the movement control order (MCO).

PUTRAJAYA (March 24): Three individuals have been convicted for offences related to movement control order (MCO) since it was imposed nationwide from March 18.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 23): Health director-general (DG) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today announced one more death from COVID-19, bringing the total number of fatalities to 15.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): PLUS Malaysia Bhd's (PLUS) radio-frequency identification (RFID) launch planned for April 1 has been postponed.