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New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari on Monday evening inaugurated 50 artisan-based Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) clusters that are spread over 18 States.

SIBU: Sarawak recorded 185 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday (Feb 21), an increase of 51 cases compared with a day earlier. No death was reported while there were 195 recoveries, making the total of number patients discharged from hospital statewide to 5,774, or at 72.69%. The state disaster management committee in its daily updates said of the new cases, Sibu district had the most with 82 cases, followed by Kuching (29), Kapit (20), Sri Aman (11), Bukit Mabong (10), Bau (6), Bintulu (6), Song (5), ...

KUCHING: A new Covid-19 cluster in Sarawak has been linked to a group of men arrested for a fight on Valentines Day. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas said the index cases of the Jalan Green cluster were two of the detainees who were screened following their arrest on Feb 14. He said the tracing and screening of contacts resulted in four more positive cases for a total of six confirmed cases in the cluster to date. "As of noon on Feb 19,148 individuals had been screened of which 30 teste...

State Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun (pic) said the first was the Lot Satu cluster with nine positive cases. "The index case is a restaurant worker at Donggongon who tested positive following symptomatic screening at a private hospital on Feb 14, and the rest of the cases were discovered from close contacts and workplace contact tracing. "The Lot Tujuh cluster, meanwhile, recorded eight cumulative cases, with the index case being a restaurant staff at Jalan Pint...

KUCHING: Six new Covid-19 clusters have been identified in Sarawak, as the state reported 193 new cases and one death on Tuesday (Feb 16). In a statement, the state disaster management committee said two of the new clusters involved nursing homes at Jalan Geronggang and Sungai Merah in Sibu. It said the Geronggang cluster was identified following active case detection after a 77-year-old resident of the home tested positive on Feb 10. "The index case likely contracted the virus from the communi...

These clusters had still recorded cases over the past 14 days, he added. “Since the pandemic hit our country, a total of 43 clusters have been detected in the state with 19 remaining active. “Until Feb 14, Perak has recorded at least 7,393 cases with 36 deaths," he said in a statement after attending a meeting with the Covid-19 Emergency Management Technical Committee here on Monday (Feb 15). The meeting was also attended by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Takiyuddi...

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has detected 13 new Covid-19 clusters, taking the total number of active clusters up to 489 nationwide. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 13 new clusters, 10 are linked to outbreaks in workplaces. One of them is the Jalan Senai Utama cluster in Johor, which has 131 confirmed cases. Dr Noor Hisham said the positive cases were discovered from a targeted screening exercise conducted on 414 individuals linked to a factory in Mukim Sen...

Tata Steel bets on expanding steel demand to double its capacity SECTIONS Share Synopsis Tata Steel has restarted work on a pellet plant and cold-roll mill complex expansion at Tata Steel Kalinganagar. It was halted due to the lockdowns. The expansion of the Kalinganagar plant to 8 mtpa from 3 mtpa will incur a cost of around Rs 25,000 crore, the company said. MUMBAI: Tata Steel is betting on expanding steel demand to double its capacity to 40 million tonnes. Having reduced debt by Rs 18,000 cr...

In his daily Covid-19 update, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah ( pic) announced 3,384 more people have contracted the virus while 3,774 were discharged. “The number of active Covid-19 patients currently receiving treatment is 51,783, ” he said. Selangor remained the state with the highest number of cases with 1,082 infections yesterday, while Johor had 777 new cases and Kuala Lumpur had 435 cases. Dr Noor Hisham also announced 13 more Covid-19 deaths, of which 11 were...

PUTRAJAYA: More than 20,000 of the country’s Covid-19 patients are currently under home quarantine, says the Health Ministry.