Condos can impose Covid-19 tests, and other news you may have missed

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

1. Health experts condemned a move by condominium management bodies to impose mandatory Covid-19 testing on its residents, but Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the management can impose such conditions.

2. Malaysia’s ranking on corruption perception index fell six places for 2020, prompting the corruption watchdog Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism to urge the government to buck up.

3. Jakun children at Kampung Orang Asli Kemidak travel 15km daily to a makeshift wooden hut to get a decent Internet connection to facilitate online learning, while authorities study ways to provide assistance.

4. Healthcare workers at the frontlines of the battle against Covid-19 voiced their grouses against poor working conditions and unsympathetic supervisors in an anonymous survey, some claiming that it has compromised patient care.

5. A police sergeant has succumbed to Covid-19 while undergoing home quarantine, while the daily death toll yesterday also included two youths with no history of chronic disease.

6. Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz lauded the rating agency Moody's Investors Service’s affirmation of Malaysia’s A3-Stable rating.

7. Businesses that are allowed to operate under the second movement control order may now stay open until 10am, but the emergency ordinance will soon be used to introduce stiffer penalties against non-compliances with standard operating procedures. In addition, the timber sector is also allowed to operate.

8. Environmentalists are livid over Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari's determination in considering the plan to degazette the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve.

9. A Covid-19 outbreak has been detected at the police training centre at Jalan Semarak, while the office of the Kedah menteri besar and several other nearby offices are closed after a case was detected.

10. Covid-19 survivors are found to be more likely to be diagnosed of a mental illness or neurological disorder in the six months after testing positive.