News about Covid

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28): The government will not include the AstraZeneca vaccine under the National Covid-19 immunisation programme, said coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27): New Covid-19 infections in the country stood at 2,733 today, marking the 17th day where the daily figure was above 2,000 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27): The manager of YTL Corp Bhd-linked Starhill Global REIT, which owns the Lot 10 Property and The Starhill retail and hospitality entity along Jalan Bukit Bintang here, said the property trust remains cautious as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on its tenants’ businesses remains uncertain.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27): Property developer Yong Tai Bhd said its healthcare subsidiary has obtained approval from the Ministry of Health's Medical Review & Ethics Committee (MREC) for its Phase III clinical trial study of inactivated Covid-19 trial vaccines in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): The number of Covid-19 infections in the country in the past 24 hours rose to 2,776 from 2,690 the day before, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 395,718.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): Cumulative Covid-19 positive infections in the country rose by 4.

PUTRAJAYA (April 26): The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said the government will be using RM5 billion from the National Trust Fund (KWAN) for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as for the country's immunisation plan, as it had no choice but to do so as its finances are nearing its limit after the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): With daily Covid-19 cases persistently coming in above 2,000 since April 15, the Health and Sciences Covid-19 Advisory Group of Experts today called on the government to centre its mitigation efforts on targeted Movement Control Orders (MCOs), and to speed up the country's vaccine roll-out.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): Malaysia recorded 2,690 new Covid-19 cases today, down from 2,717 yesterday, bringing the number of cumulative coronavirus cases in the country to date to 392,942.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 23): New Covid-19 infections today remained above 2,800 for the second straight day with 2,847 cases, raising the country's total cases to 387,535, the Health Ministry said.