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AirAsia resumes domestic flights from April 29

KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group Bhd will resume its scheduled domestic flights starting April 29, 2020 before gradually adding international destinations, subject to approval from the authorities. The international flights to Thailand and the Philippines are scheduled to resume on May 1, and Indonesia on May 7, the airline said in a statement yesterday. “The resumption of services will initially be for key selected […]

UN chief says not time now to stop funding for WHO

MOSCOW: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, after US President Donald Trump’s statement on the suspension of funding for the World Health Organisation (WHO), that it was not the right time now to do so, reported Sputnik news agency. Trump said Tuesday evening that he had instructed his administration to stop US funding for the […]

Trump halts US funding to WHO

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration is halting the nation’s funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a move experts have warned against, as Covid-19 continues to take a toll globally. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump also said a review is being conducted to assess the WHO’s […]

Lifting restrictions ‘too quickly’ could lead to deadly resurgence of Covid-19

GENEVA: World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned here on Friday that lifting restrictions “too quickly” could lead to a deadly resurgence of Covid-19, Xinhua news agency reported. Noting at a regular press briefing that “some countries are already planning the transition out of stay-at-home restrictions”, the WHO chief warned that lifting restrictions […]

Malaysia joins global ‘Solidarity Trial’ to test possible treatments for Covid-19

KUALA LUMPUR: The ‘Solidarity Trial’, launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO), will see Malaysia’s involvement in an international effort to test several drugs in treating Covid-19. Malaysia’s Ministry of Health (MOH), in a statement today, said the WHO globally coordinated trial is an unprecedented effort to collect reliable data and compare the safety and […]

WHO needs to develop effective strategy

KUCHING: The World Health Organisation (WHO) needs to hold international teleconference meetings to develop a more effective and comprehensive strategy in dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak, says the Malaysian Young Graduates Association (Graduan). Its president Lee Seang Hock said the Covid-19 outbreak had become a global pandemic with more than 53 countries adopting movement restrictions […]

Covid-19 pandemic accelerating as global cases top 300,000

GENEVA: More than 300,000 cases of Covid-19 have now been reported from almost every country in the world, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, noting “the pandemic is accelerating”. It took 67 days from the first reported case of Covid-19 to reach the first 100,000 cases, while the second and […]

Protecting children against dreaded virus

KUALA LUMPUR: The World Health Organisation recently declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic after taking into consideration the sharp rise in cases worldwide. Over the past two weeks, the focus of the disease’s transmission shifted from China to the rest of the world. Having spread to about 162 countries now, the tally has exceeded 180,000 cases […]

Chronology of COVID-19 in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Following is the chronology of the spread of COVID-19 in Malaysia. Jan 23 2020: – The Ministry of Health (MOH) through the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) receives three reports (two in Sabah and one Selangor) suspected to be infected with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). – MOH confirms cases in Sabah […]

WHO Chief says threat of Covid-19 pandemic very real

BRUSSELS: The chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that the novel coronavirus has got a foothold in so many countries and the threat of a pandemic has become very real, reported Xinhua news agency. His words came as Cyprus confirmed its first two Covid-19 cases, which means all EU members have […]