News about Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR (April 17): Many traders who have set up Ramadan bazaar stalls for years will have to miss out this year as the government has decided to ban the operation of Ramadan bazaars in a bid to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 17): Kedah, Perlis and Penang can be the first states in the country to be declared as Covid-19 green states, according to Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a Malaysiakini report yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 17): Malaysia has yet to see any significant cluster of Covid-19 infections among foreign workers in the country, according to the Ministry of Health.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): No new red zones were reported so far as of noon yesterday, according to the statistics by the Health Ministry’s Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC).

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Property prices are expected to decline by as much as 20% in the next few months with more motivated sellers, as the impact of Covid-19 continues to unfold.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Countries that ease restrictions imposed to fight the spread of Covid-19 should wait at least two weeks to evaluate the impact of such changes before easing again, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday, according to a Reuters report.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Four new cases were reported in the Kampung Baru and Bali clusters of infections, according to the data given by the Ministry of Health.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Malaysia has yet to identify the particular strain of novel coronavirus that caused the spread of Covid-19 in the country, said Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): The Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce (MCCC) wants the government to give optical shops the option to continue operations during the third phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO).

NEW DELHI/KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of Covid-19 patients, Malaysia's Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Kamarudin Jaffar told Reuters on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on exports of the anti-malarial drug.