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MOH also announced 71 recoveries today, bringing the total so far to 4,484, representing 70.6% of overall cases.

“They were workers at the mall. The queue was because we were taking the temperature and recording their details. We had to take individual details.”

The US leader also said he was confident a vaccine would be developed by the year’s end.

As the Movement Control Order (MCO) ended yesterday to be replaced with the Conditional MCO from today, Klang Valley folk start going back to the malls albeit in small numbers while some cannot wait to get some exercise done in the parks. Still, it will be the “new normal” as malls, restaurants and businesses continue with social distancing

"Given that BNM has already cut 50bps since the start of the year, a 50bps cut in May would be appropriate, in our view, in balancing between the need to extend monetary policy support and stability in monetary policy decisions."

New Zealand director general of Health Ashley Bloomfield, however, also reminded Kiwis to continue social distancing “to ensure Covid-19 does not return”.

Some activities to resume from May 5

The Mr J French-Italian restaurant said its final day of operations will be on May 31.

Some states, particularly Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kedah, Sabah, Sarawak and Penang, have imposed certain conditions before deciding on allowing businesses to resume operations today.

Sabah, Sarawak and Kedah had earlier announced decisions against following the CMCO which begins tomorrow.