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KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Two days after Sime Darby Bhd said its chairman has been tested positive for COVID-19, its group chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Jeffri Salim Davidson is found to have also contracted the virus.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): A Malaysian participant at an international tabligh gathering in Indonesia has decided to stay put in the country even though the event has been postponed.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): WCT Holdings Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary WCT Bhd has today accepted the letter of award (LoA) for an estimated RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): The trading of shares will go on, said the Securities Commission (SC) and Bursa Malaysia in a joint statement today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Bursa Malaysia’s construction index, which tracks share prices of builders listed on the exchange, settled down 13.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): The police have now been tasked with tracing the about 4,000 attendees of the tabligh event in Sri Petaling last month who have yet to be tested for COVID-19, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri revealed, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): China Construction Bank (Malaysia) donated 15,000 masks to Malaysia as part of efforts to help contain the spread of COVID-19, Malaysiakini quoting the Chinese Embassy reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Public Bank Bhd will be providing a special relief facility for small and medium enterprise (SME) customers and a relief assistance programme for loan repayments.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): The Ministry of Health has denied viral news that claimed that a COVID-19 patient had escaped from the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Perak.

PETALING JAYA (March 19):  A man who was infected by COVID-19 has taken a bus from Johor Bahru to Kuantan, reported Free Malaysia Today.