Published on: Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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Universiti Malaysia Sabah is one of learning institutions in Sabah with many foreign students. (Photo: UMS/Facebook)
PUTRAJAYA: International students will be allowed to return to their respective campuses to resume their studies for the 2021 academic year, effective Jan 1, except those from the United Kingdom (UK) due to the latest COVID-19 situation in that country.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said also included are existing students resuming their studies and new students who received offers from the country’s public and private higher learning institutions.
“Apart from getting a place at the university, they must have secured an accommodation as well, as we do not want them to come here first then to find a place to stay. Once everything in place prior to their arrival, only then we will allow them to return here,” he said at a press conference on the development of
Monday, 21 Dec 2020 07:46 PM MYT
BY R. LOHESWAR
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 The Covid-19 situation in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya is under control despite the daily high infection rates, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah assured residents in the central region today.
He said the current high cases were well within the Health Ministry’s expectations after the third wave broke out in Sabah back in September.
He was responding to Malaysian Public Health Physicians Association president Datuk Dr Zainal Ariffin Omar who suggested that the Klang Valley could turn into the next Sabah if the daily new cases maintained its current trajectory.
Monday, 21 Dec 2020 08:23 PM MYT
BY R. LOHESWAR
Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah explained that the five phases are necessary to identify the vaccine’s effectiveness and who will get it first. Reuters pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 The Covid-19 vaccine produced by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will have to go through five phases before it can be approved for use in Malaysia, the Health director-general said today.
Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah explained that the five phases are necessary to identify the vaccine’s effectiveness and who will get it first.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 22): The Covid-19 vaccine produced by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will have to go through a five-phase evaluation process in Malaysia before it can be approved for use by the public, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told reporters yesterday.
And just the first phase of this process, which involves checking the documentation submitted by Pfizer, may, shockingly, take between 90 and 120 days.
This means that while countries like Britain, the US and Canada have already approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and are now carrying out vaccination exercises on their citizens, Malaysians, from the looks of it, will need to wait at least a few more months before anyone can get their shots.