Malaysia reports 5,293 new Covid-19 cases, 60 fatalities
KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): Malaysia recorded 5,293 new Covid-19 cases today, a decline from yesterday's 5,911, bringing the total reported positive cases in the country to 696,408.
Case numbers and vaccination rates not enough to capture complexity of pandemic, says health coalition
KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Insisting that the three criteria of case numbers, ICU bed utilisation and vaccination rates are not adequate to capture the complexity of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Malaysian Health Coalition (MHC) has called for additional KPIs to guide the National Recovery Plan.
ProtectHealth: Private medical practitioners' contracts will be terminated if found selling Covid-19 vaccines
KUALA LUMPUR (June 18): ProtectHealth Corp Sdn Bhd says it is taking the paid vaccination issue seriously and that it will not hesitate to terminate the contract of private medical practitioners found involved in selling Covid-19 vaccines procured by the government.
MoH-backed ProtectHealth ropes in eye-care specialist ISEC to administer Covid-19 vaccination
KUALA LUMPUR (June 16): Eye-care specialist ISEC Healthcare Ltd said two of its ambulatory surgical centres in Malaysia will administer Covid-19 vaccination services to the Malaysian public under an agreement with Ministry of Health (MoH)-backed ProtectHealth Corp Sdn Bhd.
Covid-19: Malaysia detects 23 new variant cases of SARS-CoV-2
KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): The Ministry of Health (MoH) detected across Malaysia 23 new variant cases of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes Covid-19, between last Thursday (June 3) and Tuesday (June 8).
Covid-19: Malaysia's new cases fall to 5,671 from 6,239 a day earlier
KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): Malaysia's daily number of confirmed Covid-19 cases dropped to 5,671 today from 6,239 yesterday, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Panasonic’s solar cell and panel production plant in Kulim up for sale
PETALING JAYA (June 10): Panasonic Solar Energy Malaysia’s solar cell and panel production plant in Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHPT) is now up for sale as Panasonic Group has ceased solar production operations in Malaysia, said Knight Frank Malaysia.
Increase testing capacity to reduce Covid-19 brought-in-dead cases, says Malaysian Health Coalition
KUALA LUMPUR (June 9): The Malaysian Health Coalition has expressed concern over the increasing number of Covid-19 patients brought-in-dead (BID) to hospitals, saying it reflects possible systemic failures.
Malaysia's new Covid-19 cases fall to 5,271 as Selangor records sharp drop in infections
KUALA LUMPUR (June 7): Malaysia's daily number of newly confirmed Covid-19-infected individuals fell to 5,271 today from 6,241 yesterday, helped mainly by the sharp drop in the number of fresh cases reported in Selangor.
Covid-19: Another day with over 100 deaths, over 7,000 new positive cases
KUALA LUMPUR (June 5): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reported another day of over 100 coronavirus-related deaths, with 109 fatalities recorded within the past 24 hours as of noon today, pushing the national death toll to 3,291.
