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SHAH ALAM: Wanting public health issues to be addressed at all times as opposed to only when a pandemic or a medical crisis occurs, the Selangor government has set up the Selangor Public Health Advisory Council (Selphac).

Why did MOH stop sharing granular data on Covid-19 deaths, asks Dzul Published Modified7:01 am - The Selangor Taskforce for Covid-19 chairperson Dzulkefly Ahmad has questioned why the Health Ministry stopped sharing granular data on Covid-19 deaths in the past week. The last time the ministry revealed such data to the public was on July 13. “(I) truly wanted to know why the... All Access Plan

MP SPEAKS | Focus more on specific figures than on daily number of Covid-19 cases Modified3:52 am - MP SPEAKS | Yesterday, the country experienced a new high of 13,215 Covid-19 cases detected. While this number would have caused great alarm among most Malaysians, it is important to interpret these numbers in the proper context. More testing will detect more positive cases and with the proper standard operating procedures (SOPs), this will help contain the spread of the virus. Moving forward, th...

MP SPEAKS | Prioritise vaccination for factories, industries in Selangor Modified2:18 am - MP SPEAKS | Yesterday, the number of Covid-19 positive cases in Selangor reached 2,836 cases out of a total of 6,276 cases nationwide, or 45 percent of total cases. It is likely that the number of cases will remain high in Selangor for another few weeks for a variety of reasons, including the possible spread of the more infectious Delta variant, and the continued infection of workers via their hostel/dor...

Friday, 04 Jun 2021 07:59 PM MYT BY RADZI RAZAK Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue personnel conduct a sanitisation operation at Perkasa People’s Housing Project (PPR) in Kuala Lumpur, June 3, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The political secretary to Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin today criticised infectious disease expert and World Health Organisation Science C...

Seeing post-jab pictures of friends and family could help reduce fears about vaccine side effects.

PETALING JAYA: As registrations for the second round of opt-ins for the AstraZeneca vaccine opens up for those aged 60 and above at noon Sunday (May 23), tech-savvy young ones are gearing up to help enrol the senior citizens.

UPDATED 10.20AM | There are over 5k seniors who are not tech-savvy to book the vaccine.

Easy does it: Parents calming down a child while they get tested for Covid-19 at Kampung Baru in Balakong. — FAIHAN GHANI/The Star KLANG: The Selangor state-sponsored mass Covid-19 screening found that a majority of those between the ages of 20 and 40 who tested positive were asymptomatic. The screening was carried out by Selcare, which is the administrator of the state government’s healthcare programme, Skim Peduli Sihat. Selcare manager Mohd Noor Md Nasir said almost 80% of positive indiv...

MP SPEAKS | Covid-19: How do we manage the third wave differently? Modified9:24 am - MP SPEAKS | The announcement of the new movement control order (MCO) in some places and conditional MCO or enhanced MCO in others, was largely anticipated. This is indeed a huge admission of failures of the federal government to manage the raging third wave. Much to the chagrin of everyone, the extension of MCO is surely very damaging to both livelihoods and lives and heap a colossal impact on our already ailin...