ACP Afzanizar (in red shirt) and his deputy Melaka Tengah deputy OCPD Supt Raiz Mukhliz Azman Aziz being briefed by temple chairman Hau Han Lee.
MELAKA: A senior police officer has become more appreciative of how the Chinese New Year is celebrated this year.
Melaka Tengah OCPD Asst Comm Afzanizar Ahmad said in his line of duty, this is the first time he is experiencing the actual atmosphere of the Lunar New Year. Previously, I used to attend open houses during festive seasons but this time, I got an insight of how CNY is celebrated and also had the opportunity to make new friends, he said after visiting Cheng Wah Keong Taoist Temple at Kandang here on Friday (Feb 12).
In his daily Covid-19 update, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (
pic) announced 3,384 more people have contracted the virus while 3,774 were discharged.
“The number of active Covid-19 patients currently receiving treatment is 51,783, ” he said.
Selangor remained the state with the highest number of cases with 1,082 infections yesterday, while Johor had 777 new cases and Kuala Lumpur had 435 cases.
Dr Noor Hisham also announced 13 more Covid-19 deaths, of which 11 were Malaysian citizens.
The two foreigners, a 66-year-old man at the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan and a 42-year-old man at Hospital Kuala Lumpur, were dead on arrival.
The Health Ministry also uncovered 17 new Covid-19 clusters nationwide, including one in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur which has been dubbed the Jalan Telawi cluster.
Unusual sight: The quiet traffic situation on Kuala Lumpur and Selangor highways ahead of Chinese New Year amid the MCO. MUHAMAD SHAHRIL ROSLI/The Star
PETALING JAYA: Traffic volume on the North-South Expressway saw a significant drop during this year’s Chinese New Year holidays compared to last year’s pre-Covid-19 times, says Plus Malaysia Berhad.
“Plus records a daily average of 760,000 vehicles as compared to the two million on peak days during last year’s Chinese New Year holidays.
“The low volume of traffic at all our highway network, when compared with the normal Chinese New Year festive period, arises from the banning of interstate and inter-district travel during the movement control order, ” said Plus Malaysia Berhad chief operating officer Zakaria Ahmad Zabidi.
Compiled by HEMANANTHANI SIVANANDAM, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
DUE to Covid-19 travel restrictions, a pair of twins from China’s Harbin City will spend Chinese New Year alone at a boarding school in Melaka, reported Sin Chew Daily.
Brothers Yi Xiang and Yi Shun, who enrolled at the Pay Fong High School in 2019, said with all the other students having gone back for the festive period, it was as if the entire school “belongs to us”.
The two described the experience as “refreshing” but it did not stop them from feeling homesick.
According to the 18-year-olds, their parents and grandparents were in a situation akin to theirs as Harbin was also under lockdown, with inter-city travel banned.