YANGON– The number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 525,750 in Myanmar, after 347 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health yesterday.With five new deaths, the death toll
JAKARTA– The death toll in the eruption of Semeru, a volcano in Indonesia’s island of Java, has risen to 43, with 104 people injured, the National Disaster Management Agency said yesterday.Yesterday’s evacuation process was stopped, as the search and r…
KUALA LUMPUR— The ‘#covid19’ hashtag has been the most widely used by Twitter users in Malaysia, mainly due to the country facing the movement control order earlier this year.Twitter in a statement Thursday said between Jan 1 and Nov 15,
The United States and United Nations condemned the Myanmar junta over what Washington described as “credible and sickening” reports of the killing of 11 villagers, including children, in a restive central region.The State Department and the U.N. secret…
Published by Malaysiakini (English) COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported a total of 28 new Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Dec 8), bringing the cumulative death toll to 30,746. Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and
BANGKOK– Thailand said yesterday, it detected two potential cases of the Omicron variant, after reporting two Thai women arriving from Nigeria tested positive.The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said, a 46-year-old and a 36-year-old…
