KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.
1. A factory in Rawang is believed to have dumped thousands of litres of scheduled waste into the sewage system, which wound up at an Indah Water Konsortium plant and spilled over into Klang Valley’s water supply. Four people have been arrested.
2. There was uproar in the Dewan Rakyat when Bintulu MP Tiong King Sing said Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is too “afraid to die” to assess the Covid-19 situation in Sabah personally, but he said he has no intention to “maliciously target” Noor Hisham and merely wanted to highlight the people’s dissatisfaction with the government’s response to the pandemic.
3. Noor Hisham countered that he and his deputy had in fact made visits to Sabah to oversee the Covid-19 response in the state.
4. The Covid-19 outbreak in Sabah appears to be in decline, but it is growing in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. Noor Hisham said the situation in Selangor could have been worse than Sabah if the government hadn’t implemented the conditional movement control order pre-emptively.
5. The Johor government has proposed that the conditional MCO be enforced only in red zone areas or districts with a high number of Covid-19 cases and not the entire state.
6. Government figures reveal that more than 30,000 businesses have shut down from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic up to September, and there has been a slight increase in school dropouts.
7. Former education minister Maszlee Malik has kicked off his #UntukMalaysia initiative to find solutions for issues surrounding the education sector.
8. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has accused the Malaysian government of denying it access to meet detained refugees and asylum seekers for more than a year.
9. The Dewan Rakyat has approved a motion to set up nine new Special Select Committees to replace 10 existing committees set up by the previous administration.
10. A study has found that one-in-five Covid-19 survivors are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days, as well as a higher risk of dementia.
