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"The government took note of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong's point of view as mentioned in the statement released by the palace."

EMIR Research head of science and technology Ameen Kamal said that in order for the herd immunity target to be achieved, the entire vaccine doses — which is assumed to be 59.92 million doses for 27 million people — need to be completely administered between October and November this year under an “increasing vaccination rate scenario”.

In a nationally televised address on the Covid-19 exit plan, the prime minister said the threshold is expected to be reached by the end of August at the earliest.

"Therefore, it has been suspended."

The adjournment was apparently decided last week, and that today's date had been vacated. 

The case management for all four suits will be conducted online before deputy registrar Nor Afidah Idris

After Judicial Commissioner Adlin Abdul Majid recused herself from hearing the case.

All in all, 1MDB and SRC are seeking a total in excess of US$23 billion (about RM94.43 billion) and another RM300 million against those alleged domestic recipients of siphoned funds from SRC and 1MDB.

Another 87 fatalities were recorded today, taking the national death toll to 3,378.

The union said this is the third time within the last six years the bank has implemented such schemes.