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Reduced testing of close contacts and other news you may have missed
Modified15 Jan 2021, 8:32 am
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1. With its resources stretched thin, the Health Ministry is adopting new policies that could see fewer close contacts being tested for Covid-19, prompting concerns from other healthcare professionals.
2. The government is asking the opposition bloc to nominate three people to join a committee that will advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on when to end the emergency proclamation, but several Pakatan Harapan leaders have expressed reservations.
Three months to flatten the Covid-19 curve and other news you may have missed
Modified14 Jan 2021, 2:13 am
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1. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said it could take 12 weeks to “flatten the curve” of new Covid-19 cases, but that could change after two weeks of the movement control order and reduce the daily cases to 1,000 per day after four weeks.
2. Amid questions regarding the efficacy of SinoVac’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Special Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Committee co-chairperson Khairy Jamaluddin gave his assurance that Malaysia would not follow through with purchasing CoronaVac if it fails to meet the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency’s standards of efficacy and safety.
Emergency declared and other news you may have missed
Modified13 Jan 2021, 4:48 am
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KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.
1. The government has declared a state of emergency due to the Covid-19 situation. While a civilian government would be maintained, there would be no elections nor parliamentary sessions, and emergency powers may be used to commandeer private healthcare facilities and even increase penalties for SOP violations.
2. An independent committee of health experts and bipartisan lawmakers will be set up to advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on when to end the emergency. Despite this, critics from various quarters are sceptical of the need for an emergency and alleged it is a bid by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to cling to power. Learn what the emergency means in this K