KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. Covid-19 cases breached the 4,000 mark yesterday, while ICU beds in public hospitals were near maximum capacity.

2. The Health Ministry is equipping the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang with a hospital to treat quarantined patients who develop serious symptoms.

3. The Health Ministry will be setting up Covid-19 Assessment Centres to monitor patients with mild or no symptoms and quarantined at home.

4. The Sarawak government has decided to self-implement a conditional movement control order throughout the state.

5. PAS vice-president Idris Ahmad has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting other top party leaders to get tested as well.

6. Former lord president Mohamed Salleh Abas passed away at 92, days after testing positive for Covid-19.

7. A 16-year-old girl was raped by an underage offender while in police custody at the Miri Central police station in Sarawak, prompting police to suspend two officers on duty when the incident occurred, pending an investigation.

8. The police fined Putrajaya Umno Youth over Thursday's "free frozen chicken distribution" programme.

9. The Prime Minister's Office has denied that RM35.43 million is being spent to build one hall in Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's Pagoh constituency, saying that three are being built instead.