SIBU, April 4 Police are checking on standard operating procedures (SOP) compliance daily at Ramadan bazaars here, says Sibu Crime Prevention and Community Safety Division head DSP Ariffin Bahar. He informed that about 10 police personnel inspected Permai Lake Garden and Farley Ramadan bazaars.
SIBU: Three business owners and an assistant of a noodle stall have become the first people here to be fined RM10,000 for breaching the conditional movement control order.
The four who were fined on Saturday (March 13), included two hairdressers where one of them did not wear gloves and the other was without personal protective equipment (PPE) while at work.
An assistant of a Kampua (Foochow dry noodle) stall was also fined for not wearing her face mask properly which exposed her nose and mouth. The other was a coffee shop operator who did not put up a barricade line around his shop.
KUALA LUMPUR – The country is expected to need a year to achieve herd immunity for the coronavirus through the National COVID-19 Immunisation Plan, one of the largest vaccination programmes in Malaysia.
Scientist Ts. Dr Ummirul Mukmimin Kahar from the Malaysian Genome Institute, National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia (NIBM) said that to achieve herd immunity, 80 per cent of the population needs to be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Malaysia is expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech by the end of February with frontline staff being among early recipients of the vaccine.
“After February, the COVID-19 National Immunisation programme will become one of the largest vaccination exercise in Malaysia. The administration of the vaccine will be implemented in three phases and will run until February 2022,” he told Bernama in a special interview via Zoom here, today.
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State Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian speaks during a media briefing in Kuching May 14, 2020. Picture courtesy of Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas)
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SIBU, Feb 8 The genome sequencing analysis of Covid-19 shows that the variant infecting Sarawakians now is different from the one detected in March to April last year, said Sarawak Local Government and Housing Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian.
The initial infection was of the Wuhan strain but when the Stutong Cluster and Keranji Tabuan Cluster emerged last month, the genome sequencing analysis done by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) showed the new strain being similar to the ones found in Indonesian and the United Kingdom (UK).
SIBU: The genome sequencing analysis of Covid-19 shows that the variant infecting Sarawakians now is different from the one detected in March to April.