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Sabah Polls: Voters complying with Covid-19 SOPs

Sep 26, 2020

Voting is currently underway for the 16th Sabah state election!

Voters are allowed to cast their ballots anytime between now and 5pm, with early results for the polls expected to come in by 10pm.

The Election Commission has also reminded voters to sanitise their hands before dipping their fingers into the indelible ink pots at the polls. 

Meanwhile, if you're in the west coast, the interior division, Sandakan and Kudat districts don't forget to bring along an umbrella when you head put to vote weather officials advised to be prepared for rain.

A new Covid-19 cluster, dubbed the Orkim cluster, has been detected in Johor involving a ship docked at the Pasir Gudang port.

The Health Ministry says 30 individuals who are the ship's crew have been screened for Covid-19 and two of them tested positive.

This comes as we reported 111 new Covid-19 cases nationwide yesterday, raising the number of active infections to 858.'

 About 50 percent of EPF contributors aged 54 have savings of less than RM50,000 for retirement.

EPF says in total, only 34 percent of EPF active contributors reached the level of basic savings by age.

It says the basic savings set by them is RM240,000 because the average life expectancy of Malaysians has now increased to 75 years.