News by Syafiqah Salim

This is the third consecutive day that the country delivered more than 300,000 daily shots. A total of 313,761 vaccine doses were administered on Monday, while 340,043 doses were administered on Tuesday

Of this, 206,757 jabs were given as the first dose while 133,286 people had received their second dose

This was in line with the government’s target to administer an average of 300,000 doses per day in July and 400,000 doses per day in August.

The engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for the 10.95 megawatts plant was awarded by Solar Citra Sdn Bhd. 

The CITF said the cumulative 9.01 million Covid-19 vaccine doses comprised 6.39 million and 2.62 million first and second doses respectively.

These involved 18 cases of Delta variant (B.1.617.2), five cases of Beta variant (B.1.351), three cases of Kappa variant (B.1.617.1) and two cases of Alpha variant (B.1.1.7).

... replacing Tajuddin Abdul Rahman and Muhammad Nizam Alias respectively, who left under a cloud of controversy earlier this year.

This compares with 6,276 cases yesterday, and marks the third consecutive day that new infections stayed above 6,000.

Selangor remained as the worst-hit state after reporting 2,836 pandemic cases, up from 2,299 yesterday

The national R0 number has been going up since June 26, when it stood at 0.97, to 0.99 on June 27, 1.00 on June 28 and 1.04 yesterday.