News about Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah

KUALA LUMPUR (April 21): Birthday wishes have been pouring in on social media for Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured), with prayers that he will stay strong and persistent in the fight against COVID-19 in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): Malaysia has reported 1,070 new Covid-19 cases today — down from 1,349 yesterday — bringing the cumulative number of confirmed infections in the country to 352,029, according to Health director-general (DG) Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 17): It is vital for the recipients of the Comirnaty vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech to take the second dose to significantly increase antibody production in order to efficiently gain long-term immunity against the virus.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): A total of 166,363 individuals have received the vaccine in the Phase 1 of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme as at yesterday (March 8), said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 21): Malaysia has logged another 3,170 new Covid-19 cases today, with 12 more fatalities.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 16): The Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today denied that the enforcement of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) has failed to curb the spread of Covid-19 cases in the Klang Valley.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 44 positive Covid-19 cases were classified as brought in dead (BID), as they had died before they could be admitted into hospital.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 24): Malaysia reported seven Covid-19-related deaths today as the number of daily new cases tops 1,000 for the first time at 1,228.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 20): The Utama cluster is currently the largest active one in Selangor with 194 positive cases, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah revealed today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 20): More time is needed to determine if the conditional movement control order (CMCO) should be extended, Malaysiakini reported Health Ministry director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pictured) saying yesterday.