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Selasa, 19 Januari 2021

COVID-19: All Malaysian states except Sarawak to be placed under MCO starting Friday - CNA

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on Tuesday (Jan 19) that all states in Malaysia, with the exception of Sarawak, will be placed under Movement Control Order (MCO) from this Friday.

In a press conference, Mr Ismail Sabri, who is also the Defence Minister, said that MCO will be implemented in six states, including Kedah, Perak, Pahang, Terengganu, Perlis and Negeri Sembilan. This will be effective from 12.01am on Jan 22 and last until Feb 4.

"The MCO standard operating procedures are the same as I have announced before. That means residents are not allowed out, except for two from one household for daily necessities, including emergency cases," he said.

PM Muhyiddin Yassin Jan 19 — Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin waves to people who have tested positive for COVID-19 at a quarantine facility at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park (MAEPS) in Serdang, outside Kuala Lumpur on Jan 19, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Malaysia Department of Information/Syarul Azis)

Last week, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said five states, including Penang, Selangor, Melaka, Johor and Sabah, and the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan will be placed under MCO again for two weeks from Jan 13 to Jan 26.

Kelantan was subsequently placed under MCO beginning Jan 16.

READ: Malaysian PM Muhyiddin announces RM15 billion economic aid package as COVID-19 cases soar

The health ministry reported 3,631 new COVID-19 on Tuesday and 14 more fatalities. Nine additional clusters were also detected, including two involving family members.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin Jan 19, 2021 — Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin wears a face mask, face shield and rubber gloves after arriving at a COVID-19 quarantine facility at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park (MAEPS) in Serdang, outside Kuala Lumpur on Jan 19, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Malaysia Department of Information/Aqilah Mazlan)

There are now more than 165,000 COVID-19 cases in Malaysia, with close to 40,000 active cases. The healthcare system is at a breaking point, said Mr Muhyiddin.

A nationwide state of emergency, which is effective from Jan 11 to Aug 1, was declared by the king last week to curb the spread of COVID-19.

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2021-01-19 13:29:43Z
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Malaysia reports 3631 new COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths as most of country placed under movement curbs - CNA

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2021-01-19 12:12:20Z
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COVID-19: All Malaysian states except Sarawak to be placed under MCO starting Friday - CNA

Kelantan was subsequently placed under MCO beginning Jan 16.

READ: Malaysian PM Muhyiddin announces RM15 billion economic aid package as COVID-19 cases soar

The health ministry reported 3,631 new COVID-19 on Tuesday and 14 more fatalities. Nine additional clusters were also detected, including two involving family members.

There are now more than 165,000 COVID-19 cases in Malaysia, with close to 40,000 active cases. The healthcare system is at a breaking point, said Mr Muhyiddin.

A nationwide state of emergency, which is effective from Jan 11 to Aug 1, was declared by the king last week to curb the spread of COVID-19.

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Senin, 18 Januari 2021

Biden's team says US will not lift COVID-19 travel bans, despite Trump's statement - CNA

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden's spokesperson dismissed President Donald Trump's announcement on Monday (Jan 18) that a COVID-19 ban on travellers arriving from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted on Jan 26.

"On the advice of our medical team, the administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on (Jan 26)," tweeted Jen Psaki, Biden's press secretary.

"In fact, we plan to strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of COVID-19."

She added: "With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel."

Just minutes prior to Psaki's tweet, Trump said in a statement he would lift the travel ban on Europe and Brazil. Travel bans for China and Iran would remain in place, he said.

"This action is the best way to continue protecting Americans from COVID-19 while enabling travel to resume safely," Trump said.

Biden will be inaugurated on Wednesday.

READ: Brazil COVID-19 vaccinations start nationwide as country faces vaccine ingredient shortfall

READ: US and China clash at WHO over COVID-19 scientific mission in Wuhan

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last Tuesday that all air passengers bound for the US will be required to test negative for COVID-19 within three days of their departure.

The test policy will take effect on Jan 26, and expands on a previous testing rule that targeted Britain and came into effect in December, following the emergence of a coronavirus variant believed to be more transmissible.

The CDC recommends that travellers get tested again three to five days after their arrival, and stay home for at least seven days.

Some epidemiologists have warned it is likely that new, more transmissible variants are already establishing themselves in the US, the hardest-hit country in the world by the pandemic.

As of Monday, the US had recorded more than 24 million cases of COVID-19, with nearly 400,000 deaths.

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2021-01-19 01:29:01Z
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Independent COVID-19 review panel critical of China, WHO delays - CNA

GENEVA: An independent panel said on Monday (Jan 18) that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial COVID-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an international emergency until Jan 30.

The experts reviewing the global handling of the pandemic, led by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, called for reforms to the Geneva-based United Nations agency.

READ: US and China clash at WHO over scientific mission in Wuhan

Their interim report was published hours after the WHO's top emergency expert, Mike Ryan, said that global deaths from COVID-19 were expected to top 100,000 per week "very soon".

"What is clear to the panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January," the report said, referring to the initial outbreak of the new disease in the central city of Wuhan, in Hubei province.

READ: Vaccine nationalism puts world on brink of 'catastrophic moral failure': WHO chief

As evidence emerged of human-to-human transmission, "in far too many countries, this signal was ignored", it added.

Specifically, it questioned why the WHO's Emergency Committee did not meet until the third week of January and did not declare an international emergency until its second meeting on Jan 30.

"Although the term pandemic is neither used nor defined in the International Health Regulations (2005), its use does serve to focus attention on the gravity of a health event. It was not until Mar 11 that WHO used the term," the report said.

"The global pandemic alert system is not fit for purpose," it said. "The World Health Organization has been underpowered to do the job."

Under President Donald Trump, the United States has accused the WHO of being "China-centric", which the agency denies. European countries led by France and Germany have pushed for addressing the WHO's shortcomings on funding, governance and legal powers.

The panel called for a "global reset" and said that it would make recommendations in a final report to health ministers from the WHO's 194 member states in May.

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2021-01-18 20:03:22Z
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Trump ends historically unpopular presidency with 34% approval, United States News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to 34 per cent in a Gallup poll released Monday (Jan 18), the low point of a presidency that already had the weakest average approval rating of any of his predecessors since the survey began in the 1940s.

The new Gallup numbers, based on a poll that began just before the assault on the Capitol on Jan 6, show Trump's approval rating falling 12 percentage points since before the Nov 3 election.

The drop mirrors other polls that show a significant loss of support in the final two weeks of his presidency, which included not only the riot he egged on but the unprecedented second impeachment.

The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Trump with a 39.8 per cent approval rating, down 4 percentage points since the Capitol attack.

Gallup's numbers give the most historical perspective, measuring Trump against his last 12 predecessors, going back to Harry S. Truman.

Trump's final approval rating of 34 per cent is the same received by Presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter in their final Gallup polls. Truman was the lowest at 32 per cent.

President Barack Obama left office with a 59 per cent approval rating.

Trump's average approval rating across his term, 41.1 per cent, is the lowest measured by Gallup, 4 percentage points lower than Truman.

Trump's approval numbers are also characterised by highly polarised views of his presidency.

The Gallup poll released Monday shows that he gets positive ratings from 4 per cent of Democrats, 30 per cent of independents and 82 per cent of Republicans - a gap of 78 percentage points. Over the course of his presidency, the average gap has been 81 percentage points, larger than any president in history.

Trump never received the "honeymoon" other presidents get after their inauguration, and his approval rating remained in a narrow 15-point band during his entire presidency.

His high point in the Gallup survey came early last year, following his acquittal by the Senate in his first impeachment trial, and during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

But his standing took a hit last summer, following the nationwide protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The Gallup poll is based on telephone interviews of 1,023 adults conducted Jan 4-15, 2021, with a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

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2021-01-18 21:31:00Z
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Independent COVID-19 review panel critical of China, WHO delays - CNA

READ: US and China clash at WHO over scientific mission in Wuhan

Their interim report was published hours after the WHO's top emergency expert, Mike Ryan, said that global deaths from COVID-19 were expected to top 100,000 per week "very soon".

READ: Vaccine nationalism puts world on brink of 'catastrophic moral failure': WHO chief

As evidence emerged of human-to-human transmission, "in far too many countries, this signal was ignored", it added.

Specifically, it questioned why the WHO's Emergency Committee did not meet until the third week of January and did not declare an international emergency until its second meeting on Jan 30.

"The global pandemic alert system is not fit for purpose," it said. "The World Health Organization has been underpowered to do the job."

The panel called for a "global reset" and said that it would make recommendations in a final report to health ministers from the WHO's 194 member states in May.

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