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Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (right) talks with a border guard during his visit to the border guard station in Ha Tien City, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, April 18, 2021. Photo: P. Vu / Tuoi Tre
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COVID-19 Updates Vietnam recorded one imported case of COVID-19 from Japan on Monday morning, bringing the national tally to 2,785 infections, with 2,475 recoveries and 35 virus-related deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. As many as 79,182 people had been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Vietnam as of Sunday. The Ministry of Health ordered the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, an epidemiological research institute, to set up a COVID-19 testing lab in Ha Tien City in Kien Giang Province, which borders Cambodia. Illegal immigration from Cambodia remains rampant in the southern Vietnamese locality while the COVID-19 situation in the neighboring country stays complicated.
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Baru said the over RM900 million allocation for the three bridges was diverted to the northern part of Sarawak for the Sarawak-Sabah Link Road. ― Borneo Post pic
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KUCHING, April 18 Selangau MP Baru Bian has defended himself by dismissing claims that he had cancelled three bridge projects in Sarawak when he was the works minister under the former Pakatan Harapan (PH) government.
“It has come to my attention that certain parties, whether out of ignorance or spite, continue to slander me by saying that when I was works minister, I cancelled the Rambungan, Igan and Batang Lupar bridges projects and diverted the allocated funds to Kedah and Sabah.
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SETAR: An ambulance ferrying a Covid-19 patient was involved in an accident with a one-tonne lorry at KM52.6 northbound of the North-South Expressway (PLUS), near the Alor Setar Selatan toll plaza this evening.
Kedah Health director Dr Mohd Fikri Ujang said the ambulance was on its way from Sungai Petani to the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital (HSB) with the patient and three Ministry of Health staff on board.
“All the four passengers are safe and have been sent to HSB for treatment,” he said when contacted by
Bernama today.
Meanwhile, Kedah Fire and Rescue Department assistant director (operations) Mohamadul Ehsan Mohd Zain said the department received an emergency call regarding the incident at 4.20 pm.
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BUTTERWORTH: Four men, believed to be from Johor, were arrested for allegedly breaking into a frozen meat storage centre in Taman Inderawasih and stealing the goods inside.
All four, aged between 27 and 37, told the police they had chosen to commit the act up north to avoid detection and arrest in the south, where their previous criminal records originated.
Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Shafee Abd Samad said they received a report on April 4 about a frozen food store being broken into.
“The complainant said when he arrived at the store at around 6.30am that day, he found the main door of the frozen meat storage open and the inside emptied. He then lodged a report, ” he said in a statement on Thursday (April 15).