1:46 PM MYT
PETALING JAYA: Frontliners have been battling Covid-19 for exactly a year today (Jan 25), and they will remain steadfast in the fight against the pandemic, says the Health Ministry. Work continues as usual for the ministry s high level management and frontliners who are fighting Covid-19 at the hospitals, Quarantine and Low Risk Treatment Centres, Covid-19 Assessment Centre (CAC) and clinics, it said in a Facebook post after a virtual Centre of Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) meeting on Monday (Jan 25).
The ministry said the first Covid-19 case was detected on Jan 25 last year, involving three family members of a Chinese national.
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.
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 25): Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the government has no intention to extend the current Movement Control Order (MCO), which was implemented on Jan 13, beyond Feb 4 as there is a glimmer of hope that the curve will flatten soon.
His remarks came after manufacturer associations warned their members of a possible stricter lockdown if they remained lax in implementing measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 among their staff. We have implemented the MCO on Jan 13 and we decided to extend the MCO until Feb 4. We do not want to extend the MCO because this will affect our economy. So, we must balance between our economy and health, said Dr Noor Hisham at a virtual media briefing today.
Sunday, 24 Jan 2021 02:34 PM MYT
BY SOO WERN JUN
File picture shows the general view of workers’ quarters within the premises of a glove manufacturer in Klang December 24, 2020. Picture by Yusot Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) has called on its members to help break the Covid-19 infection rate in the country.
Acknowledging that the manufacturing sector contributes 99 out of 318 active Covid-19 infection clusters, the federation’s chief executive officer Yeoh Oon Tean said it is important that FMM’s members to do their part to by taking additional proactive and preventive measures to tighten the existing standard operating procedures (SOPs) at workplaces and the living quarters of employees.
Since the third wave of Covid-19 hit Malaysia in October last year, more and more people are willing to get tested even though they are asymptomatic or a close contact