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1.36 million Malaysians have been fully vaccinated, while 1.77 million individuals have received only one jab. 

Employees and jobseekers ranked “work-life balance” in a close second with 69%, followed by “strong management” with 64%, “a Covid-19 safe work environment” with 63% and “financially healthy” with 62%.

The economist raised the concern after senior minister for security Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the government would review the need to continue or relax the total lockdown SOPs under the movement control order if the daily infections drop to below 4,000 cases.

MEF president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman JP said Malaysia should have its own specialised vaccine research centre to look at the long-term prospects of producing the country’s own vaccines.

100,360 were to individuals who received their first dose, while the remainder were to 33,444 individuals who got their second jab.

Selangor still has the highest number of new Covid-19 infections, with 1,973  cases recorded.

There were also 76 fatalities linked to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the pandemic's death toll in Malaysia to 3,844

Retail Group Malaysia (RGM) managing director Tan Hai Hsin: Retailers are still struggling after almost 1½ years (of dealing with the pandemic)

“So far this year, the situation is already worse than in 2020 in many ways, with the average occupancy rate (AOR) hovering at a low 20%, and even that is mainly contributed by [occupants at] quarantine hotels,” said Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) vice-president C S Lim

The campaigns were allegedly mounted to have the 1MDB embezzlement investigation that the US initiated in 2015 and its related forfeiture proceedings involving Jho Low and others be dropped, and to have the Chinese dissident — said to be billionaire Guo Wengui — be sent back to China.