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HEALTH DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (picture) said the government should wait for the Phase 3 clinical trials of vaccines before committing to one.“We have hopes of looking into the vaccines but to date, although there are 11 vaccines in Phase 3 of clinical trials, we have yet to read the reports on them.“So, we hope to analyse the reports in terms of the safety and advocacy of the vaccines. Hopefully, it will be positive but nonetheless, we will look at the details thoroughly,” he said in his daily briefing yesterday.

MALAYSIA is getting eerily close to the 7,000 mark for daily new Covid-19 cases with 6,976 cases reported yesterday, taking the country’s cumulative total to 512,091.Health DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Selangor was again on top of the list with 2,235 new cases. This was followed by Sarawak with 663 cases, Kelantan (626) and Johor (549).Other states recording high cases included Kuala Lumpur (KL) (447), Negri Sembilan (434) and Kedah (422).

THE govt will enforce Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) at Kampung Datuk Ibrahim Majid and Bandar Baharu Datuk Ibrahim Majid in Simpang Renggam, Kluang, effective midnight (March 27) until April 9.Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, in a statement, said the decision was taken on the advice of the health minister after the Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed that there were 83 positive cases of Covid-19 infection in the Kluang district in Johor, with 61 cases coming from the two areas.“The purpose of the EMCO is to prevent Covid-19 infection from spreading o...

MALAYSIA reached a new high of 21,668 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, breaking Aug 5’s record of 20,889.This brought the country’s cumulative cases to 1.34 million, of which 237,021 are active cases with 1,059 in intensive care units and 543 patients requiring respiratory assistance.In his statement yesterday, Health DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said a total of 318 deaths were recorded with 93 brought-in-dead (BID) cases.

THE government has announced a new price cap on face masks. Effective Aug 15, the price for face mask is at RM1.20 per piece, 30 sen lower from its current price.This comes after Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said in a recent televised address that the government was considering making the use of face masks mandatory in public spaces.Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi told the Dewan Rakyat that the wholesale price for the product would also be reduced from the current RM1.45 per unit to RM1.15 from the same date.