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Overwhelming response for RM 30 e-Tunai initiative

Jan 15, 2020

Image: TheStar 

Touch n Go eWallet and Boost service providers, experienced overwhelming responses over the RM30 e-Tunai Rakyat initiative.

According to the Star, both providers have assured its users, that services will go back to normal after they increase their capacity to cope with the heavy traffic.

Other than those providers, GrabPay was also selected for the cashless payment project.  

Malaysians aged above 18, and who earn less than RM100,000 annually can register to receive RM30 via those service providers, starting today. 

The Health Ministry to prioritise young children and the elderly for flu vaccines

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Influenza vaccine at government health facilities, will only be given to young children and the elderly.

The Health Ministry says it will prioritise patients in the high-risk groups, with weakened immune systems. 

Such individuals are more likely to get complications from the viral infection, which can result in death. 

It adds, the vaccine will also be given to the ministry's frontliners such as doctors and nurses, as they're exposed to infected patients. 

Affected Filipinos anxious to return home 

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Philippine authorities are struggling to keep evacuees from returning to their homes, in the danger zone around the Taal volcano. 

Locals are losing patience and want to enter no-go zones, having been stuck in shelters since the volcano erupted on Sunday. 

But volcano experts have warned that a devastating eruption could rain rocks and magma, as well as set off a tsunami from the lake where the volcano sits.