SABAH will commercialise two new fruit varieties - avocado variety (QAV 3) and tarap (a fruit native to Borneo) variety (QTRP 1) - as a result of research carried out at the Bukit Quoin Agricultural Research Station in Tawau over the past 20 years
Sabah will commercialise two new varieties of fruit - avocado variety (QAV 3) and tarap (a native to Borneo) variety (QTRP 1) - as a result of research carried out at the Bukit Quoin Agricultural Research Station, here, over the past 20 years
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The Sabah Local Government and Housing Minister said this as Sandakan district joins Tawau and Lahad Datu as MCO imposed districts, while the MCO in Keningau is set to end on Sunday (April 18) as scheduled.
“Kota Kinabalu appears to have stabilised with seven new cases on Saturday, and so there s no truth to the rumours of a MCO in Kota Kinabalu, ” he tweeted on Saturday (April 17).
Sabah recorded 163 new cases on Saturday, with Tawau contributing the highest figure at 95 cases, followed by Lahad Datu (25 cases) and Sandakan (13).
Masidi, in a press statement afterwards said two new clusters were reported in Tawau, which is the Bukit Quoin cluster with 11 cases and the Jalan Damai cluster with 14 cases.
Saturday, 17 Apr 2021 06:31 PM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah arrives for his daily press conference on Covid-19 in Putrajaya February 9, 2021. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 Eight new Covid-19 clusters were detected by the Health Ministry today, three of which are located in schools or education institutions.
Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the eight clusters, one is located in Selangor, Pahang, and Johor respectively, while two are located in Sabah and three in Sarawak.
Sarawak recorded the second-highest total with 512 cases.
In Selangor, 623 cases were linked to clusters or were identified from close contact tracings of active Covid-19 patients.
Eight new Covid-19 clusters were also reported, bringing the total number of active clusters to 347.
Four of the new clusters were from workplaces, three from schools and education institutions, and one was a community cluster.
The Jalan Ding Lik Kwong cluster (16 cases) in Sibu Sarawak, the Jalan Damai Tawau (14 cases) and Bukit Quoin (11 cases) clusters in Tawau, Sabah, and the Jalan Wawasan Lima cluster (10 cases) in Batu Pahat, Johor were linked to workplaces.
Sarawak s Ulu Balingian cluster (101 cases) in Selangau, and Jalan Disa cluster (20 cases) in Sibu were linked to schools or education institutions.