Retail, hospitality sectors may see 15-20% closure
KUALA LUMPUR (May 9): The retail and hospitality sectors were among those that have been badly hit as travel had come to an almost complete halt due to Covid-19, The Edge reported today.
KUALA LUMPUR (May 9): The retail and hospitality sectors were among those that have been badly hit as travel had come to an almost complete halt due to Covid-19, The Edge reported today.
KUALA LUMPUR (April 17): IHH Healthcare Bhd has allocated 200 beds across its network of 15 Pantai and Gleneagles Hospitals in Malaysia to treat non-Covid19 patients decanted from public hospitals.
KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): The Edge Covid-19 Equipment Fund will be delivering another batch of personal protective equipment (PPEs) to public hospitals in the country over the next two weeks.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): The Edge Covid-19 Equipment Fund has started sending one million face masks and 35,000 personal protection suits to more than 30 designated hospitals — just one week after the fund was launched to raise money from Corporate Malaysia.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): CIMB Group Holdings Bhd has confirmed that one of its employees has tested positive for COVID-19.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 28): A patient suspected with COVID-19 infection has reportedly killed himself after being admitted to an isolation ward at Serdang Hospital, a China Press report said yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 28): At least one New York hospital has begun putting two patients on a single ventilator machine, an experimental crisis-mode protocol some doctors worry is too risky but others deemed necessary as the COVID-19 outbreak strains medical resources, Reuters reported on Thursday.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 25): There has been another death due to COVID-19 this evening, bringing Malaysia's death toll to 20, said Health Ditector-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 25): UDA Holdings Bhd has donated over RM100,000 worth of supplies to assist hospitals and the frontliners in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia.
Below is a press release by the ECM Libra Foundation and Ormond Group KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): The ECM Libra Foundation, together with the support of the Ormond Group, will provide free accommodation for health care workers from the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital (HKL).