PM warns against Covid-19 complacency and 9 news you may have missed

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.

1. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin warned against complacency amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and said the government is considering making it compulsory to wear masks in public.

2. A new Covid-19 cluster has been discovered following a death at an aged care home in Kluang, Johor, pushing daily new cases to a one-month high of 21. Health authorities are tracking down a woman who allegedly breached her quarantine and went to a café.

3. Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun defended writing a letter asking the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to consider ending a hearing of Najib Abdul Razak’s 1MDB trial early, saying the letter was not an order but a request for consideration.

4. Former transport minister Anthony Loke said Muhyiddin had made factual errors when outlining the government’s economic stimulus packages and hoped a correction will be issued.

5. A mural in Shah Alam featuring portraits of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and several other national leaders have been vandalised, prompting anger from Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah and an investigation that is tracking down two alleged perpetrators.

6. Bersatu dissidents aligned with Langkawi MP Dr Mahathir Mohamad welcomed Warisan’s invitation to join the party, but said they would only make a decision on the invitation after the court decides on their challenge against the Bersatu’s decision to terminate their membership.

7. Utusan Malaysia and its sister publication Kosmo! have restarted publication and pledged to restore readers’ confidence through disseminating “trustworthy and thought-provoking” information.

8. The National Film Development Corporation (Finas) said international news agency Al Jazeera did not have the necessary permits to film the documentary ‘Locked up in Malaysia’s Lockdown’ that has attracted criticism.

9. Amnesty International urged the authorities not to carry out a caning sentence against a group of 20 Rohingya asylum seekers.

10. Kuala Lumpur Mayor Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan said a broken pipe is believed to be responsible for sinkholes on Jalan Taman U Thant, while police said soil erosion and sedimentation that led to the closure of Jalan Klang-Banting is due to the construction for the Light Rail Transit 3 project.