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MOH joins search for Medan 88 residents

Nov 13, 2020

The Health Ministry has joined the search for the residents of Medan 88 in Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, who fled just before the area was placed under an Enhanced MCO.

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Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah suspects that many of those who ran off are illegal foreign workers.

The help of the police has also been sought, to track these residents down.

Separately, Dr Hisham says the high number of Covid-19 cases in the Klang Valley and Negeri Sembilan remains an issue of concern for the Health Ministry.

These areas accounted for more than half of the 919 new infections reported nationwide yesterday.

Vaccine plan is ready

A plan is already in place to vaccinate Malaysians against Covid-19.

The Health Ministry says the program will be activated as soon as a high-quality and effective vaccine is identified and secured.

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Priority will be given to frontliners, patients with co-morbidities and the elderly.

The ministry adds that its also closely monitoring all vaccines that are being developed.

However, as of now, there’s yet to be one that has passed the third phase of clinical testing.

Free Trade Area will be orderly

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FT Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa has assured that the Free Trade Area initiative in KL, Putrajaya and Labuan will be supervised by local authorities, to avoid hygiene and congestion issues.

The initiative, that begins this Sunday, allows anyone residing in the three federal territories to operate stalls or conduct petty trading in any suitable area.

Malaysia’s birthrate is on the decline

A new report says the number of births reported in the country in the third quarter of this year fell nearly six percent from the corresponding period last year, to some 116 thousand.

Total births during the period comprised 60,090 boys compared to 56,344 girls.

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