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KUALA LUMPUR: With Malaysia’s announcement of a new 14-day nationwide lockdown from June 1, business owners complained on Saturday of being left in the lurch and asked for the government’s assistance to “help them stay afloat.” On Friday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that the decision to impose a “total lockdown” was to address mounting pressure on the nation’s health

KUALA LUMPUR: Public health experts in Malaysia are calling for a strict lockdown as the nation continues to face a surge in coronavirus cases. On Thursday, authorities reported 7,857 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. It was the third consecutive day on which the number of infections in the country has hit a record high. The total number of cases in Malaysia, which has a population of nearly 33 million, now stands at more than 541,200, and nearly 2,500 people have died of conditions related to COVID-19. It is the third worst-hit country in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia and the Philippines. W...

Explaining non-disclosure agreements in Covid-19 vaccine procurement Modified6 Jan 2021, 7:56 am A - COVID-19 | Last week’s spat between Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin and DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang over Covid-19 vaccines highlighted an important feature of the procurement process - non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Why do pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna impose NDAs in the first place? Are NDAs common? Who stands to benefit from such secrecy? To answer these questions, we spoke to two experts - health policies specialist Dr Khor Swee Kheng and...