Covid-19 (Jan 26): 3,585 new cases, record numbers in ICU
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Modified26 Jan 2021, 12:04 pm
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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 3,585 new Covid-19 cases amidst a growing number of patients who require intensive care and ventilators to breathe.
Leading indicators:
Patients in ICU: 280 ↑ (19 more than the previous day)
Intubated patients: 111 ↑ (10 more than the previous day)
Deaths: 11
The Klang Valley reported the most number of new cases (54.3 percent) followed by Johor (14.6 percent) and Sabah (8.6 percent).
In Selangor, 187 new cases were detected among individuals without symptoms and are not linked to existing clusters. This is relatively higher, considering that most states are reporting new cases in the double digits only.
BOUSTEAD Holdings Bhd’s new group managing director Datuk Seri Mohammed Shazalli Ramly, who stepped into his new role last Tuesday (Dec 1), has his work cut out for him, and that is to steer the diversified conglomerate back to profitability by 2023.
Shazalli is the third MD to helm the group in three years after Tan Sri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin and Datuk Seri Amrin Awaluddin. In a statement issued on Nov 27, Boustead hailed Shazalli as a “turnaround specialist”. Still, most of Shazalli’s career has been in telecommunications, more recently as the MD and CEO of Telekom Malaysia Bhd.
He inherits an organisation that has significant legacy issues, which its chairman Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin had previously identified as investments made in the past that do not have the right focus in making them profitable, mismatch of funding between long-term investment and short-term debts, and a convoluted organisational structure where there are cross-holdings in Boustead subsidiaries