Sanitisation work continues at multiple locations
KUCHING: The ongoing statewide sanitisation exercise carried out by State Fire and Rescue Department continued yesterday at multiple locations. According to a report from the department, Imperial Riverbank Hotel and e-Mart Matang were the focus areas yesterday. The sanitisation work was carried out between 2:40pm and 3:30pm by 25 firemen and Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) […]
STIDC, STA donate RM2mil worth of PPE
KUCHING: Sarawak Timber Association (STA) and Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (STIDC) distributed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth RM2mil to help the state’s frontliners battle the Covid-19 pandemic. The PPE comprised KN95 masks, disposable masks, goggles, face shields, head covers, vinyl examination gloves, isolation gowns (non-sterile), protective coveralls (sterile) and boot covers. STA, in a […]
A fontliner’s appeal
KUCHING: Even as the nation enters its third phase of the movement control order (MCO) in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic, a small number of people continue to flout the decree. Everyday dozens of people are arrested for violating the decree and face charges under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the […]
Fatimah speaks from her self-home quarantine
BY COLINNA RADANG Our journalist recently had the opportunity to interview Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah to share her thoughts on the problems and solutions in dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak. Question: You have been instructed to undergo self-home quarantine after you happened to be involved with […]
Using IR4.0 apps to combat Covid-19
BY KURNIAWATI KAMARUDIN KUALA LUMPUR: Industrial Revolution 4.0 applications are currently being deployed by several countries to track and contain the Covid-19 pandemic. China, for example, has been making use of its technological resources to devise more effective tools to study the novel coronavirus, as well as create innovative enforcement and disease monitoring applications, to […]
Journalists are frontliners, too
SIBU: Journalists are frontliners in combating Covid-19, said Sibu Journalists Association (SJA) chairman Hii Hiong Wee. “This is because we go to the ground interviewing the public to get the real news, and we do not know whether the people we are dealing with are Covid-19 patients,” he explained. Hii urged the public not to […]
Digital technology to monitor those in quarantine
BY DARYLL LAW & NATASHA JEE KUCHING: Sarawak unleashed its surveillance technology to combat Covid-19, in its efforts to stem the spread of the virus. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said the adoption of the digital method by the Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA) is to assist the State Disaster Management Committee. Uggah, […]
