KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has laid out six criteria that need to be fulfilled before the government can lift the movement control order (MCO).

2. Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob warned against complacency as the number of new Covid-19 cases remain in the double-digits, while the threat of imported cases remains.

3. Residents in Sendayan spoke of shock and stigma after a local community leader died of Covid-19 and found themselves in the national spotlight.

4. At Kem Muhibah last December, NGOs such as Dong Zong and Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia collaborated to help students from monoethnic or mono-religious backgrounds make friends across barriers.

5. While residents near the Kuala Lumpur wholesale market are cut off from food after being place under an enhanced movement control order, Deputy Federal Territories Minister Edmund Santhara Kumar Ramanaidu said the necessary supplies would be purchased from the market to help those affected.

6. Edmund denied he was embroiled in an argument with Batu MP P Prabakaran, but said the latter had walked into a meeting where sensitive information was being discussed.

7. Netizens, media personnel and Health Ministry staff paid tribute to Noor Hisham in conjunction with his 57th birthday.

8. Glove manufacturer Top Glove denied reports that it failed to comply with measures meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19 on its premises.

9. Analysts view Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s political appointments as an attempt to ensure MPs’ loyalty to him, so that he doesn’t get overthrown.

10. US crude oil prices crashed below zero for the first time in history, but this will not result in free petrol for consumers at the pump.