“I urge everyone who has yet to undergo the second screening to do so as soon as possible.”

The official statistics revealed that there were 826,100 unemployed in May, an increase of 6% from 778,800 in April.

Nonetheless, few might have noticed that the size of the labour force has been shrinking in recent months. In April, the labour force lost 130,000 people when it declined to 15.71 million, from 15.84 million in March. The number remained flat at 15.71 million in May.

Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri: The scheme offers up to RM75,000 in financing for micro-companies and up to RM300,000 for SMEs with up to 3.5 percent interest per year, for a period of not more than seven years.

This, the REIT said in a filing yesterday, was due to a lower revenue amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which was however partly cushioned by lower property operating expenses of RM25.49 million versus RM58.40 million previously.

“Both children have been admitted to the hospital and we have isolated them and are treating them. So rest assured that there have been no clusters formed in the school with regards to the two children.”

"Police will be at every kampung to monitor SOP compliance including homes, just like they did during Hari Raya Aidilfitri recently and as announced earlier, each home is allowed to have only 20 guests at any one time.”

Of the eight new cases, five were local transmissions involving five Malaysians, while three imported cases involved two Malaysians and one foreigner who was allowed to enter the country.

"It is most unfortunate that the government had not discussed the matter with stakeholders on such a major policy shift prior to the announcement in Parliament.”

"Support for the Perikatan Nasional government is only based on support of Umno and BN members of Parliament and state assemblypersons in the formation of the federal government and certain states," he said.

At the historic meeting, the two prime ministers witnessed their transport ministers — Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong of Malaysia and Singapore's Ong Ye Kung — hold official documents to signify their agreement to proceed with the RTS project.