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Malaysia has reported 2,176 new Covid cases, taking the tally to 266,445, health officials said on Monday.Health Ministry s Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said that one of the new infections was an imported one and 2,175 are of local .
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia is preparing to shut down most of its economy if coronavirus cases continue to surge, sources say, after existing movement controls have so far failed to contain the spread of infections. Several industry and government sources have confirmed to The Straits Times that the Health Ministry wants to impose a total lockdown on all economic activity.
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New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world, with over 8.7 crore cases and more than 18 lakh deaths reported so far.
Amid rising infections, Zimbabwe is suffering from a “deepening economic crisis”.
Meanwhile, high street pharmacies in the UK will begin to offer shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine from next week.
With coronavirus infections in Malaysia hitting a new high, the country’s health chief has called for a targeted lockdown.
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