Published on: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
By: Malay Mail
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Senior Minister and International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali during an oral reply session in Parliament December 3, 2020. Bernama pic
Kuala Lumpur: International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali
(pic) on Monday stressed that the national economy does not run on a “switch off-switch on” mode and requires time to slowly recover following a three-month strict lockdown last year.
While the Penjana and Prihatin stimulus packages announced by the Government last year may have a compounding effect on the economy, Azmin dispelled the notion that the economy could revive instantaneously after the movement control order (MCO) was lifted.
Monday, 25 Jan 2021 08:26 PM MYT
BY EMMANUEL SANTA MARIA CHIN
Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah at a daily press conference on Covid-19 statistics at the Ministry of Health, January 6, 2021. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 Manufacturing workers’ housing was among “fundamental issues” that must still be addressed before Malaysia could contain its Covid-19 situation, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
Speaking during a media briefing session held over Zoom this evening, the Health director general workplace clusters continued to be a major source of new infections despite authorities finding nearly full compliance with the standard operating procedures prescribed to the workplaces.
GROWING up in the small town of Pusing in rural Perak, Sunway Group chairman Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah had many childhood friends whose futures were bleak because they could not afford schooling.
“The poverty and hardships that surrounded me formed my conviction that education provides the best route out of poverty and misery,” says Cheah in an interview with The Edge.
Those early impressions prompted him to set up the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (JCF), which aims “to create a better, sustainable future for all Malaysians, particularly through quality education and research”.
The foundation completed its first decade last year, having awarded close to RM540 million in scholarships and grants.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 4,008 new Covid-19 cases today, the second-highest daily figure since the pandemic hit the country, says director-gene.
20 Jan 2021 / 21:28 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 4,008 new Covid-19 cases today, the second-highest daily figure since the pandemic hit the country, says director-general of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the number involved 4,003 local cases and five import cases, bringing the cumulative number of positive Covid-19 cases in Malaysia to 169,379.
“A total of 2,374 cases were reported recovered today, bringing the cumulative number of cases completely cured from Covid-19 infection to 127,662 cases or 75.4 per cent of the total number of cases,“ he said in a statement today.
Selangor once again recorded the highest number of cases with 1,391, followed by Kuala Lumpur (513 cases), Johor (470 cases) and Sabah (406).