Thousands of close contacts unreached and other news you may have missed

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

1. Overwhelmed district health offices are struggling to keep up with the task of contacting close contacts of Covid-19 patients, with over 6,000 contacts that could not be reached within the same day in Selangor alone.

2. Pasir Salak MP Tajuddin Abdul Rahman has tested positive for Covid-19 and was previously in a meeting with Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, former Umno president Najib Abdul Razak, and other Umno leaders.

3. Caught between floodwaters and a global pandemic, some Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2020 examination candidates are struggling to keep up with their studies.

4. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has clarified that Pakatan Harapan will challenge the government in court, not on the emergency proclamation, but to stress the need to have a parliamentary sitting.

5. Two decades after leaving active politics, DAP’s former MP Liew Ah Kim, 83, is planning to contest in the DAP central executive committee election, while the party’s assistant national treasurer Ngeh Koo Ham disagreed with Liew’s contention that the party needs to be reformed to allow dissenting views.

6. Sarawak is considering building a wall along its border with Indonesia to curb illegal immigration, as it bans social gatherings amid record-high Covid-19 cases in the state.

7. The judiciary will continue to conduct open court hearings of all criminal proceedings despite the movement control order, but police are seeking to postpone the cases to minimise the movement of detainees due to concerns over Covid-19.

8. Outgoing US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon for Elliott Broidy, who had pleaded guilty to illegally lobbying him to an investigation into the 1MDB scandal. Broidy did not spend a day in prison.

9. The wife of a Covid-19 frontliner denied that her husband had died of exhaustion due to his Covid-19 duties, explaining he had died of acute respiratory distress.

10. Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) chairperson Rais Hussin Mohamed Ariff has dismissed a news report claiming a slew of senior executives have quit in recent months.