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KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): The number of red zones in Malaysia that have less than 41 active cases of Covid-19 has dropped to 13 after infections in the Melaka Tengah health district jumped to 65 as at noon yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): Police in the city has “busted” drug-fuelled private parties at two condominiums while arresting 35 people, the Malay Mail reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): A Malaysian and Singaporean, both students in a university in Melbourne, have become victims of a racist attack, the Singapore-based The New Paper reported today.

MIRI (April 20): The Sarawak authorities have discovered that 2,484 people in Kuching “believed to be close contacts of positive Covid-19 patients” have not been to any health screenings, The Star reported today.

WASHINGTON (April 20): Dr Anthony Fauci (pictured), the man leading the fight against COVID-19 in the US and the top expert on infectious disease in the country does not believe that the novel coronavirus was made in a lab, Xinhua reported recently.

PETALING JAYA (April 20): A “nationwide study” conducted by real estate sales and media company Juwai IQI revealed that “residential property prices are expected to surge in 2021” post the Covid-19 outbreak, reported Free Malaysia Today (FMT).

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): A new cluster of Covid-19 infections has been detected among Malaysian students returning from Temboro, which has been declared a coronavirus red zone in the district of Magetan, Indonesia.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 19): The Ministry of Health (MoH) today recorded an increase in new Covid-19 infections at 84 cases today, following two days of decline.

PETALING JAYA (April 19): Consumer groups have urged Mydin hypermarkets (pictured) to follow the advice issued by the health ministry concerning its disinfection efforts using the mist spray, Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reported.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 19): Health Minister Datuk Seri Adham Baba said the previous government had failed to contain the tabligh cluster, without which Malaysia would only have small clusters of Covid-19 infections, Malaysiakini reported yesterday.