KUCHING: Kuching North City Hall (DBKU) is collaborating with Helpy Delivery Service, a home-grown digital apps company to help hawkers, who have registered for Ramadan bazaar lots at Jalan Semarak and Medan Niaga Satok this year, to sell their food online. DBKU director, Dr Morshidi Ahmad, said as Ramadan bazaars
KUCHING: A WhatsApp message claiming that an individual working at Mydin Hypermart Petra Jaya at Jalan Demak here had been infected with Covid-19 has gone viral, prompting the hypermarket to deny the fake news in its Facebook page. “We would like to urge the public to stop sharing the fake
KUCHING: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) has donated two intubation boxes and 100 custom-made face shields to Sarawak General Hospital (SGH). A statement issued by Unimas Global yesterday said the donation was for frontliners in the hospital who were involved in treating Covid-19 patients. The products were made by Unimas
KUCHING: All mosques and surau in the state are complying well with the movement control order (MCO), said Assistant Minister in Chief Minister’s Department (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi. He clarified that all religious activities and Friday congregational prayers had been suspended temporarily following the Covid-19 pandemic. “To
LAWAS: The Bukit Sari state constituency service centre has distributed emergency food aid to 1,067 needy families from nine villages across two zones to help ease their burden following the extension of the movement control order (MCO). The essential food assistance was sent to 409 recipients from three villages in
KUCHING: Sarawak Bumiputera Entrepreneurs Chamber (DUBS) chairman Datuk Abang Helmi Ikhwan has been appointed as one of the Economic Action Council (EAC) members. In a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Monday, the appointment of Abang Helmi together with Datuk Bridget Lai @ Bridget Anne Ching Hung
KUCHING: Emergency food aid has been sent to destitute families to reduce their burden following the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) due to Covid-19. Assistant Minister of Utilities (Water Supply) Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi said at least 835 families from 13 villages were running out of food
KUCHING: The move to provide three extra quarantine centres for Covid-19 cases in Sarawak illustrates that the state government is serious in combating the disease, said University Malaya (UM) epidemiologist Datuk Professor Dr Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud. “It looks like the state government is taking extra steps to deal with
KUCHING: Sarawakians from most rural areas have been reported to be complying well and commuting orderly, abiding to MCO. This was conveyed by Sarawak Information Department (Japen) in their observation report in which It states that the rural folks are doing the right thing as far as social distancing and
KUCHING: The two-week extension of the movement control order (MCO) will not be able to halt the Covid-19 pandemic if people continue to not comply with the order. Stressing the paramount importance to flatten the curve of the virus, University Malaya (UM) epidemiologist Datuk Dr Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud urged
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