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Religious authority made decision based on declining Covid-19 cases.

Federal health ministry sees indications of possible localised infections.

This is the last Covid-19-related restriction to be dropped.

This represents a marginal increase for the whole period.

New Covid cases undergoing home monitoring increased 321 pct.

This follows China's abandoning of its zero-Covid policy, resulting in surge.

Worried new variants emerge, nobody knows, Balachandran says.

'No credibility whatsoever.'

This is due mainly to slow-moving Covid-19 vaccine stock.

CDC, USFDA working on how to best update Covid-19 vaccines.

This represents an 8 percent decrease compared to previous week.

I’ll meet them in a few weeks’ time, she says. 

China records 7 imported cases of the highly-infectious XBB.1.5 variant. 

Admissions in govt health facilities remain the same.

At least 65 million people worldwide are now estimated to have long Covid.

Same issues brought up. Not much has changed.

Health Ministry welcomes cooperation, especially in health research. 

Ex-PAC chief says this upon Khairy's declaration 'procurement in order'.

Number of cases on a downtrend compared to previous week.

Masks not required on public transport, needed in healthcare settings.

The former minister responds to the government's White Paper on the matter.

China still doing genomic sequencing to identify potential new variant. 

UPDATED 8PM | Some issues touch on compliance and management, PM says. 

There were four imported and zero death cases.