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Under the wage subsidy programme, eligible employers may receive a subsidy of RM600 per employee. 

The latest contract brings Econpile’s orderbook to RM780 million, which will keep it busy for the next two years.

One new death was reported, bringing Malaysia's Covid-19 death toll to 116.

In a statement today, Bersatu secretary-general Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin said the Supreme Council has recognised Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as acting chairman in accordance with Clause 16.9 of the party constitution, following the resignation of Mahathir as chairman on Feb 24.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah: We have done the screening, but maybe one or two of them were probably still in the incubation period. So they tested negative. And then when we place them in the immigration detention depots, they become positive and start to infect other detainees. 

This is the highest ever daily figure recorded in the country; the second highest was on March 26 with 235 cases.

Of the 275 local transmissions, 271 cases involved foreign nationals with 270 emerging from repeat testing of detainees at the Bukit Jalil Immigration Depot Centre, while another case was detected at a construction site in Pudu.

Lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who was giving his oral submissions during the trial today, said the defence had an uphill task to defend Najib as “a victim of a scam” because of the prejudice that he was a man of finance and, therefore, should have been aware of the money coming into his accounts.

As both cases involve former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as the accused, Najib’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah had sought to vacate the 1MDB-Tanore trial for today as the defence is currently in the midst of making their oral submissions in the SRC case.

The group had in February this year announced the proposed disposal. Subsequently, on March 10, it said pursuant to the disposal, Berjaya Kyoto Development Kabushiki Kaisha (BKD) which is another subsidiary of Berjaya Corp had entered into a leaseback agreement of the hotel.

Former Finance Ministry secretary Datuk Maliami Hamad had testified that such hastiness “was not normal practice and had not happened before”, ad hoc prosecutor Datuk V Sithambaram said during final submissions in the SRC trial of former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak.