The case involved a retail staff from the Origani shop on the ground floor.

Of the new cases today, 553 were local transmissions while eight were imported. 

There were three new Covid-19 related deaths in Sabah, raising the country’s death toll to 155 or 1.03% of total cases, said health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

All 14 are undocumented migrants from Indonesia and the Philippines being detained pending Covid-19 test results.

40 of the 66 nurses of the ICU ward had been forced into quarantine when at least one staff member tested positive for Covid-19.

MAH CEO Yap Lip Seng said hotels “in several states began to receive cancellations for bookings following the spike in Covid-19 cases at the end of September”.

Fans of the merger say that while the debts of the enlarged entity appear huge, “both companies have unbilled sales (future revenue) of RM6.12 billion. Eco World Development has RM4.42 billion, whereas UEM Sunrise has RM1.7 billion”.

Petaling Disaster Management Committee has called on shoppers who went to 1Utama’s Cosmetic and Perfumes section on level-G in Parkson Elite, between Sept 30 and Oct 7, and Mac City on level-two of the mall, between Sept 25 and 30, to get tested for Covid-19.

In a statement yesterday, the bank said the employee was found to be COVID-19 positive today and is currently under quarantine, adding that the employee had been away from the office since Oct 1 and was only briefly present in the office on Oct 7.

The MOH announced that three new clusters of infections have been detected, namely the Atap cluster (four positive cases) in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; the Bah Lada cluster (four positive cases) in Hilir Perak, Perak; and the Bah Sahabat cluster (10 positive cases) in Marang, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu.