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Sabah Health Department denies viral messages on red zone warnings
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Health Department yesterday, denied two messages disseminated on social media over red zone warnings involving, several districts and the fish market, as well as the case of two positive COVID-19 patients who purportedly fled from Queen
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Adham: 110 new COVID-19 cases recorded, total 900
PUCHONG: Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba today said 110 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were recorded in the country, raising the total cases to 900. Adham said 63 of the new confirmed cases are from the tabligh gathering at
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Military troops may be mobilised to ensure compliance of movement control order
PUTRAJAYA: Military troops may be mobilised if the people’s level of compliance with the Movement Control Order introduced by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19, is deemed unsatisfactory. Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said this was
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Plantation, commodity sectors exempted from movement restriction order
KUALA LUMPUR: Workers in the plantation and commodities sector have been exempted from the Movement Control Order and are allowed to resume their work activities, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali . He said the ministry
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Embassy tracing 83 Malaysian participants of Sulawesi tabligh gathering
JAKARTA: Efforts are ongoing to trace 83 Malaysians who are believed to have come to Indonesia to attend an international tabligh gathering in Sulawesi that the Indonesian authorities have since ordered to be cancelled. The Malaysian Embassy here is working with
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Employees forced and threatened by employers to work lodged report
PUCHONG: A group of workers are not satisfied with the actions of employers who forced and threatened them to remain at work even during the Movement Control Order, lodged a police report. Mat, 23, one of the workers from a
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Uncounted among coronavirus victims, deaths sweep through Italy’s nursing homes
MILAN: As the official death toll from Italy’s coronavirus outbreak passes 2,500, a silent surge in fatalities in nursing homes, where dozens of patients a day are dying untested for the virus, suggests the real total may be higher. Official
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Kota Kinabalu handicraft market ordered to close
KOTA KINABALU: The handicraft market, in front of a hotel here, was ordered to close for 14 days by the Kota Kinabalu City Hall in compliance with the movement restriction order. Rosman, a seller at one of the salted fish
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MTUC: Don’t take advantage of workers
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) today urged employers not to take advantage of their workers who have lost their overtime income and commissions due to Covid-19 Its secretary-general J. Solomon said that although non-essential business premises were not
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COVID-19: DRB-Hicom has reported one positive case of its subsidiary
KUALA LUMPUR: DRB-HICOM Bhd has informed that an employee of its subsidiary, DRB-HICOM Auto Solutions Sdn Bhd (DHAS) in Pekan, Pahang has been tested positive with COVID-19. “The staff contracted the virus from her husband, who was in the contact
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