• UPDATED 6.39PM | Added Noor Hisham's comments on Covid-19 screening measures at Parliament.

CORONAVIRUS | The Health Ministry only advised the government on the situation of the Covid-19 outbreak in Malaysia, said its director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

Other matters, he added, were beyond the ministry's scope.

He was responding to a question on whether the Health Ministry had advised the government for the Parliament session on May 18 to only sit for a day...