Tag "COVID-19"
Back to homepage
MCO: Taxi drivers seek help after their earnings dropped 90%
KUALA LUMPUR: Gabungan Persatuan dan Syarikat-Syarikat Teksi Semenanjung Malaysia (GPST), that represents over 100 taxi companies, today appealed to the government to look into the woes of taxi drivers and taxi companies whose earnings dropped by 90% last month with
Read More
Movement Control Order: Public compliance increases to 99%
KUALA LUMPUR: Public compliance to the Movement Control Order (MCO) soared to 99% yesterday, with warning issued by the authorities that there will be no more soft mode or advice given to those who defy the order. Perhaps, it has
Read More
COVID-19: No ‘Bazaar Ramadan’ in Sabah this year
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government in principal is not allowing Ramadan bazaar throughout the state this year in the effort to curb the COVID-19 outbreak. State Secretary Datuk Safar Untong said, the ruling was in line with the government’s decision
Read More
98 individuals charged in several states for flouting MCO
KUALA LUMPUR: Ninety-eight individuals were brought to court in several states including senior citizens for infringing the Movement Control Order (MCO) as well as a woman who went viral for shouting at a policeman at a COVID-19 road block. Most
Read More
The government assured enough food, agricultural supplies
MELAKA: The government has assured enough supply of food and agricultural produce during the Movement Control Order (MCO) due to Covid-19 pandemic, said Deputy Agriculture and Food Industries Minister I, Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah. He said the government had implemented
Read More
COVID-19: 217 new cases, bringing the total to 3,333
PUCHONG: The number of new positive cases today is 217, bringing the total number of positive cases in Malaysia to 3,333. According to the Health Ministry director general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, the total number of patients discharged today
Read More
COVID-19: Negative result of health screening does not grant immunity
PUCHONG: Those who undergone COVID-19 health screening, detection test and confirmed, it does not mean they were negative to the outbreak forever, said Family Medicine Specialist, Dr Zienna Zufida Zainol Rashid. She said if they were exposed to the COVID-19
Read More
Zulkifli to discuss on haj plans with Saudi envoy next week
KUALA LUMPUR: Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Religious Affairs, Datuk Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri will meet with Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Malaysia, Datuk Dr Mahmoud Hussien Saeed Qattan on April 7, to discuss on current Haj issues. “We will
Read More
AmBank donates RM 500,000 to COVID-19 fund via MERCY
KUALA LUMPUR: AmBank Group has pledged its support to donate RM500,000 to Tabung COVID-19 via MERCY Malaysia as part of its efforts to assist the relief initiatives and cushion the outbreak’s severe impact on the national healthcare system. Chairman Tan
Read More
Lim: Government should explore possibility of holding an emergency “virtual” Parliament session
Government should explore the possibility of holding an emergency “virtual” Parliament as it is imperative that Malaysia adopts a “whatever it takes” strategy not only to win the Covid 19 war but to survive the post-coronavirus pandemic economics The Malaysian
Read More