PUTRAJAYA, Dec 21 — Flood victims will be exempted from paying replacement fees for lost or damaged driving licence, road tax and Vehicle Ownership Certificate (VOC), says Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — A total of 1,047 new variant of concern (VOC) cases, namely, the Delta, has been detected from October 29 until yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 — The Health Ministry (MOH) detected 134 new cases involving variants of concern (VOC) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from October 7 to 19, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — A total of 392 positive Covid-19 cases involving variants of concern (VOC) were detected in the country from September 25 until yesterday, according to Health director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 — Ongoing studies by three research institutes in the country have identified 265 cases involving Variants of Concern (VOC), namely the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from August 16 to 29.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 31 — Malaysians, especially those who have been fully vaccinated, should not be too complacent and neglect the standard operating procedure (SOP) and self-discipline so as to curb the spread of Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — A total of 19,326 cases or 98.4 per cent of the 19,631 new Covid-19 cases reported today are in categories 1 and 2, involving asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients respectively.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 13 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has called for stricter border control, including implementing risk assessments on individuals returning from abroad to prevent the Lambda variant from spreading into the country.

PUTRAJAYA, July 24 — New Covid-19 cases reported yesterday, amounting to 15,368 or 98.7 per cent of the total number of new cases, are in categories one and two of the infection.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 — Twenty-eight cases of new variants of SARS-COV-2 virus, with 25 cases being Variants of Concern (VOC) and three cases being Variants of Interest (VOI), were reported from June 23 to 30.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has detected six more Covid-19 positive cases involving variants of concern (VOC) in the country between June 20 and 22.

PUTRAJAYA, June 21— Malaysia is developing a vaccine to protect against Covid-19 using the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — The National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) of the Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected 22 more Covid-19 positive cases involving two variants of concern (VOCs) between June 11 and yesterday, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — The Ministry of Health has detected a total of 23 cases of Covid-19 Variants of Concern (VOC) as a result of continuous genomic surveillance from June 3 to June 8, namely 19 Beta variant cases (B.1.351) and four Delta variant cases (B.1.617.2).

KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 — The Ministry of Health has detected a total of 19 Variant of Concern (VOC) Covid-19 cases, namely four Delta variant cases (B.1.617.2) and 15 Beta variant cases (B.1.351) from May 24 till yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — The mandatory quarantine period for Malaysian and non-citizen travellers from countries except Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, has been extended from 10 to 14 days, effective immediately.

PUTRAJAYA, May 9 — The new Covid-19 variants have been identified as among factors why more young people are getting infected with worsening symptoms, causing them to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

PUTRAJAYA, April 26 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) will propose to the government to halt all flights from India to prevent the spread of India’s double-mutant Covid-19 variant in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — Travellers returning from countries reported with the spread of variants of concern (VOC) need to go through a 14-day mandatory quarantine compared to the previous period of 10 days.