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Protect workers with safe, healthy work environment Bernama WITH almost 151 million cases globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has had an immeasurable impact on our world, resulting in far-reaching health, social and economic consequences, disrupting the lives and livelihoods of people all over the world. Covid-19 has disclosed many vulnerabilities. It has had an especially profound impact on the world of work with high infection rates in some settings leading to closure of manufacturing industries, construction sites and entire service industries. Migrant workers, who make significant contrib...

LETTER | Managing the nation's Covid-19 response, responsibly A - LETTER | With position comes power. Power to rule and govern. What more with the emergency declared? While Malaysians grapple with the constant barrage of MCOs, CMCOs, EMCOs, and RMCOs, businesses big and small are affected so badly to the point that some have even disappeared forever. The constant announcements of help from the government never did reach some of them. More interestingly, what are those in authority doing to get to the source of the problem? Take Australia and New Zealand for example. While they dispensed the p...

The Selangor menteri besar also stated that the main source of new COVID-19 clusters came from factories. To rectify this issue, the state government will commence the Preventing Outbreak at Ignition Site (POIS) – a screening campaign aimed to slow and prevent the spread of new infections at factories. Meanwhile, the JKNS (State Health Department) also plans to fine private clinics or hospitals that have failed to report new COVID-19 case numbers through the Public Health Laboratory information system on the same day. Sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in Malaysia attributed to testing backl...

 channel for the latest stories and updates. The state of Selangor remains the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in Malaysia as daily Covid-19 cases nationwide soared to 5,725 new infections on 29 January 2021. Read More: The state saw a tremendous jump in daily cases from 1,577 infections on 28 January, to 3,126 cases the following day – the highest recorded so far. Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari explained that the sudden jump in cases was due to a backlog of identified infections that were not recorded in real-time. He said that for a period of 10 days, positive cases ...

Published on: Saturday, January 30, 2021 By: FMT Text Size: PETALING JAYA: Selangor Task Force Covid-19 (STFC) chairman Dzulkefly Ahmad has sounded the alarm, saying that any further delay by the authorities to hire more frontliners will see the number of Covid-19 cases “skyrocketing”. He said having more frontliners means faster testing and training, and the sooner the authorities did that, the better it would be to contain the spread of the pandemic. “Selangor will suffer the most if we take it slow,” the former health minister said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT “Any further delay...