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This brings the total of infections related to the Bali cluster to 24 cases, while Kampung Baru has 27 infections.

This comes after the group last month aborted similar cash calls announced on Feb 12, to raise up to RM80 million.

Noor Hisham said that since Malaysia is currently dealing with the second wave of the outbreak - whereby most of the infections are from imported cases through Malaysians returning from abroad, he did not rule out the possibility that all three variants of the coronavirus are present in the country.

"Our policy here in Malaysia, positive patients whether they have symptoms or not, we make sure that they are isolated in the hospitals so that we can actually monitor them closely."

This is the first time Malaysia has reported a daily figure that is less than 100 infections since March 15, with 41 cases. The next day, daily infections quadrupled to 190 cases.

MCCC said the Malaysian Optical Council under the Ministry of Health had earlier approved the operating of optical shops during the first and second MCO periods (March 18 to April 14) since the optometry service is categorised under essential health services.

Lembah Pantai located in Kuala Lumpur has topped 500 cases, which is higher than other countries in Asia such as Taiwan with 393 cases, Vietnam (267) and Brunei (136).

The funds are an outcome of the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiatives of the DOJ in relation to 1MDB.

Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah: Today was supposed to be the peak [according to the prediction] but we have not seen a peak in terms of the graph, so perhaps we have managed to flatten the curve. 

As of yesterday, the government is capable of conducting up to 11,500 tests daily, across 43 laboratories in the country. When the pandemic first started, the daily testing capacity was at 3,500.