KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.
Twenty-six percent of Covid-19 patients in the country have been cured while the total number of cases climbed to 3,483. The Health Ministry is also testing if blood plasma obtained from healthy, recovered Covid-19 patients can be used to treat those with the virus.
The Health Ministry is concerned over a possible wave of imported Covid-19 cases caused by Malaysians returning home from abroad.
Data on whether the movement control order should be extended will be ready by April 10.
The Prisons Department told the courts to stop jailing people for violating the movement control order (MCO) as there is already overcrowding which could lead to Covid-19 being spread.
The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry denied that there has been a 57 percent increase in domestic violence.
Domestic workers Malaysiakini spoke to are working without any rest days throughout the movement control order period as they are stuck in the homes of their employers.
Putrajaya will waive the 14-day quarantine rule for Malaysians working in Singapore who plan to re-enter the country if they undergo a swab test in Singapore to prove they are negative for Covid-19.
Ramadan bazaars traders are grappling with the prospect that they will have to make do without an important source of income this year.
The first round of the Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) cash aid will be paid out on April 6 but some individuals who are eligible for aid are getting disqualified on technical grounds.
PAS leaders have kept mum on the authenticity of a letter purportedly written by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang in Arabic, bashing Pakatan Harapan.
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