Fadillah tested positive for Covid-19

KUCHING: Senior Minister of Works Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night and he is now undergoing quarantine at home. This was informed by the Ministry of Works in a statement today. It said that Fadillah had taken the Covid-19 test at 10.15am on June 10 as a routine made by […]

Food aid for self-quarantined villagers

MUKAH: Staff members from the Tellian constituency service centre have joined community leaders and village chiefs to distribute food aid to villagers who were ordered to undergo quarantine at home. The food aid consists 33 packages for Sarawak Skills Development Centre (PPKS) Mukah, 15 packages for Rumah Buda of Dijih, 12 packages each for residential […]

Home treatment, quarantine for levels one, two Covid-19 patients

PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has established that levels one and two Covid-19 patients will undergo treatment and quarantine at home, while being monitored strictly by health workers, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba. He said a task force has been formed at the Crisis Preparedness and Emergency Response Centre (CPRC) level, […]

Quarantine flouter arrested while at work

DALAT:  A man who was under house quarantine at Rumah Dagang, Rantau Ensurai, Batang Oya near here was arrested by police on Friday (Oct 16). He was caught while going out to work in Kuala Matu. Dalat district police chief DSP Saga Chunggat said the subject, Steward Muji, was ordered to undergo house quarantine (HSO) […]

Quarantine baby boom?

KUCHING: While it is quite common to postulate a plausible baby boom whenever there are conditions, pandemics, or disasters that lead to restricted movement, it would take about nine months to see if the Covid-19 movement restrictions had truly caused an increase in birth rate compared to previous years. Dr Tan Yiap Loong, obstetrician and […]

Claims of PM breaching quarantine order baseless and malicious

KUALA LUMPUR: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) today stressed that the news portal Sarawak Report’s claims that Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had breached his two-week home quarantine order by going abroad to seek medical treatment for cancer, are completely baseless and indeed malicious. In a statement, the PMO said during the quarantine period, […]