KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 — All prospective haj pilgrims are required to obtain the meningococcal vaccine, while the Covid-19 and influenza vaccines are mandatory for those in high-risk groups.

NEW YORK, Jan 28 — The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday.

By Sofia Nasir SHAH ALAM, Jan 22 — Selangor was the first state to provide crucial support to Malaysia’s national healthcare system during the Covid-19 pandemic, said former state health director Dato’ Dr Khalid Ibrahim. Dr Khalid detailed how the state government took swift action by...

NEW YORK, Jan 21 — The United States will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO), President Donald Trump said today, saying the global agency mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 4 — The Covid-19 situation in Malaysia remains under control, with no increase in cases requiring Intensive Care Unit (ICU) treatment and no fatalities reported since April last year.

BEIJING, Dec 31 — China has shared the most Covid-19 data and research results in the international community, its Foreign Ministry said today, after the World Health Organisation (WHO) repeated its call for more information and access.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 23 — The Covid-19 and influenza situation in Malaysia remains under control, with no increase in cases requiring Intensive Care Unit (ICU) treatment and no fatalities reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced that the signing of the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) agreement on December 9 has been postponed to January.

LONDON, Nov 14 — There are certain phrases that Wachuka Gichohi finds difficult to hear after enduring four years of living with long Covid, marked by debilitating fatigue, pain, panic attacks and other symptoms so severe she feared she would die overnight.

CALIFORNIA, Aug 27 — Meta Platforms chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration had pressured the company to “censor” Covid-19 content during the pandemic, apparently referring to White House requests to take down misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 21 — The KP.3.1.1 Covid-19 variant, now the predominant SARS-CoV-2 variant circulating in the United States (US), has been causing increasing infections in the country, the latest data from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 — The Health Ministry (MOH) spends RM137 million a year to maintain 201 health clinics nationwide under the Clinic Support Services (PSK), with a five-year contract from 2022, the Dewan Negara was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — Covid-19 test results no longer need to be uploaded to the MySejahtera app and will instead be reported by medical practitioners through the eNotifikasi system, said the Health Ministry (MOH).

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has updated home surveillance order (HSO) requirements and face mask guidelines, effective July 15.

CAMBRIDGE, July 1 — AstraZeneca said today the European Union’s drug regulator accepted a market authorisation application for its investigational Covid-19 prevention drug, sipavibart, for an accelerated assessment.

NILAI, June 29 — The Ministry of Health (MoH) will release details of the revised standard operating procedures (SOP) related to Covid-19 soon following the country’s transition to the phase of living with the pandemic.

BENGALURU, June 28 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that individuals aged six months and older should be given an updated Covid-19 vaccine for the 2024-25 immunisation campaign, irrespective of whether they have previously been vaccinated for the disease.

BANGKOK, June 17 — Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin confirmed that he tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — The people are currently in the phase of living with the Covid-19 virus and in the transition towards continuing life as usual (normalcy), said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.

LONDON, June 2 — Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if possible, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.