Ragananthini Vethasalam
Ragananthini is a journalist with The Malaysian Insight.
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Covid-19 tests down 10.9%, positivity rate up 0.3% last week
An average of 80,165 screenings were conducted per day between June 13 and 19.
12-year-olds and older can sign up for Covid-19 jabs on MySejahtera
The process is the same as that for adults.
Not true others given vaccine priority before senior citizens, says Khairy
Minister says around 65% or 1.74 million elderly folk have been given one dose.
More than 5,000 vaccination appointments given to students going overseas
Khairy says immunisation task force processing dates for remaining students.
Govt aiming to immunise 10% of population by mid-July
Khairy says target achievable given current supply of vaccines, capacity of vaccination centres.
Malaysia’s mRNA vaccine at cloning stage
Clinical trials are next for shots developed by Institute of Medical Research.
Covid-19 infectivity rate up again to 0.97
Negri Sembilan sole state with RT of above 1.0, says Noor Hisham.
23 new clusters, majority workplaces
Factories, service companies, construction sites make up 17 workplace clusters.
74 deaths, 894 patients in ICU as new cases climb to 6,440
Critical cases drop for first time after 40 days on uptrend.
CanSino vaccine arriving in July, says Khairy
The vaccine will be administered to those in rural areas.
Khairy floats July jabs for SPM students
They will receive Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which has been approved for use on children aged 12 and older.
Rising dead-on-arrival Covid cases alarm doctors
Health authority must find out why more people are dying before they receive care, they say.
Deaths and ICU numbers drop, total cases still high at 5,738
66,097 patients currently being treated for Covid-19.
Covid-19 spike in Negri Sembilan with more than 1,000 cases
It is a sudden hike for state, which recorded 607 infections yesterday.
More than 200,000 jabs for second consecutive day
Of the number, 196,775 people received their first vaccine dose.
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