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KUALA LUMPUR (April 3): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has managed to solve the issue of shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) among healthcare workers who are in contact with Covid-19 patients, according to its director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

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KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary Ideal Quality Sdn Bhd (IQ) is selling an estimated 39ha (390,397 sq metres) vacant freehold industrial land in Kuala Langat, Selangor for RM153.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): Amid anecdotal reports of cats testing positive of COVID-19, a new study has reportedly found that cats can indeed catch the disease and could even pass it on to other felines, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): The Ministry of Health (MoH) is working together with the National Security Council (NSC) to come up with a software that will be able to predict the geographic spread of COVID-19 infections to help combat the pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): Palm oil and property player Keck Seng (Malaysia) Bhd (KSM) said its hotel operations located in the US and Canada have temporarily closed, following the enforcement of citywide lockdowns.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): Malaysia today reported its highest daily jump in the number of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 at 108, pushing the recovery tally to 645 since the first coronavirus case was detected in the country over two months ago in late January.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): In the storm of infection and death sweeping Italy, Reuters reported that one big community stands out to health officials as remarkably unscathed — the 50,000 ethnic Chinese who live in the town of Prato.

PETALING JAYA (April 1): While some may be getting bored and struggling to find things to do while staying at home during the COVID-19 Movement Control Order (MCO) period in the country, there are also those who are hard at work at home, doing their bit to help the medical frontliners.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): A drone dispersed clouds of disinfectant in the sky above Indonesia's second-largest city Surabaya on Tuesday, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic which is catching on around the world, despite warnings from health experts, Reuters reported today.