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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.

  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.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 3): Mah Sing Group Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary Mah Sing Healthcare Sdn Bhd has received approval from European Conformity (Conformitè Europëenne [CE Mark]) for its powder-free nitrile examination gloves and powder-free latex examination gloves, which would facilitate the company to tap into the export market to the European region.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 1): Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases jumped to 7,105 today after two consecutive days of decline to the 6,000 range, pushing the number of active cases to a new high of 80,474.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 31): Malaysia's new daily Covid-19 cases fell to 6,824, from 6,999 yesterday, bringing total number of cases to 572,357.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 29): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reported a total of 9,020 cases today, marking the fifth consecutive day of record high daily cases, bringing the total number of infections to date in Malaysia to 558,534 cases.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 28): Leaders of Penang’s manufacturing industry have declared their support for expediting inoculation efforts against Covid-19, but firmly stated that vaccination procurement should be left to the federal government.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 28): The government may start imposing fines, and even resort to mandatory vaccination to ensure Malaysians do not skip their Covid-19 vaccination appointments, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba was reported as saying yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 26): Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases reached a new record high of 7,478 today, according to the Ministry of Health, surpassing the previous peak of 7,289 infections registered yesterday.