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PETALING JAYA: Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has hit back at detractors for using the term "court cluster" to refer to him and other leaders facing graft charges.

Clusters, rising travel drag on virus battle; new infections over 400 again Posted : 2021-03-09 10:42 Updated : 2021-03-09 14:52 Protesters march from Gyeongbok Palace Station in Seouls Jongno District toward Cheong Wa Dae on Mar. 8 demanding the South Korean government restitute tuition fees for university students or propose alternative measures for those who couldnt normally attend their post-secondary schools and pay rents for their homes due to COVID-19 risks. Yonhap South Koreas daily ...

PETALING JAYA: Four new Covid-19 clusters were recorded on Monday (March 8), says the Health Ministry. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said three of the four clusters were linked to the workplace while another was from the community. Johor recorded two new clusters - Cyber 72 cluster and Jalan i-Park Tiga cluster - while Kuala Lumpur recorded one new cluster, the Jalan Loke Yew cluster. All three are workplace clusters. Terengganu recorded one new cluster, known as the B...

He said two clusters were linked to detention centres and one is a community-related cluster. The eight new clusters are Kemuning Enam and Jalan Sungai in Selangor, Industri Inanam in Sabah, Jalan Industri Tiga Pontian, Tapak Bina Jalan Satu in Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Awang and Kiba in Sarawak, and Persiaran Wawasan Immigration depot in Perlis. The total number of clusters now stand at 1,199, out of which 472 are active clusters. The Kemuning Enam workplace cluster involves workers of a factory in ...

SIBU: Sarawak detected two new Covid-19 clusters on Sunday (March 7).

Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the other is a community-related cluster. The three work clusters are Lagoon Selatan in Selangor, Jalan Firma Dua in Johor, Jalan Haji Malek in Melaka, while the community cluster is in Bukit Tunggal, Sarawak. In the Lagoon Selatan cluster, workers of a cleaning company located at Jalan Lagoon Selatan in Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya were screened since Feb 27. As of March 6, some 34 individuals were screened, with 12 testing positive. In t...

PETALING JAYA: Covid-19 screenings for foreign workers that ended in February have been attributed to factories making up about 60% of new workplace clusters, says the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM). Its president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai said one possible reason for the increase in workplace clusters was the rise in community transmission, especially after the start of the third wave of the virus last year. “Covid-19 is already within the community with 89% of patients being asympt...

President P. Sivakumar said now was not the time to recover profit loss. “This is the time to make small sacrifices for a better future for everyone, and each industry player plays an important role in reducing the number of infections among their workers. “If this goes on, we will open the doors for another MCO. It will be an endless cycle and cause greater loss of profit if the industries are shut down, ” he said when contacted. As of Tuesday, the Health Ministry detected seven new Covi...

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah ( pic) said the outbreak has been named the ‘Kampung Gedang cluster’ with the infections originating from a village in Alor Gajah. “This cluster has been categorised as a community outbreak and infections have been detected in several districts in Melaka, Selangor and Johor. “It is related to a funeral on Feb 14. The index case is a 61-year-old woman from Kampung Gedang, who had developed symptoms before testing positive on Feb 25,...

PUTRAJAYA: A Covid-19 outbreak at an old folks home in Seremban, Negri Sembilan has been discovered by the Health Ministry.