'Backlog' pushes Covid-19 over 5k again and other news you may have missed

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1. Covid-19 cases exceeded the 5,000 mark for the third day. However, the Health Ministry said the surge for the last three days was due to a "backlog" in cases.

There were 289 Covid-19 deaths in January, averaging 9.3 deaths per day.

2. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said any form of traditional or Islamic treatment for Covid-19 needs to be scientifically tested.

3. Mestron Holdings Bhd clarified that it does not have clearance from the Health Ministry to purchase or distribute Covid-19 vaccines.

4. The Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Association welcomed the government’s move to task private general practitioners with monitoring some Covid-19 patients.

5. Funeral parlour operator Ng Lie Cheng shared the heartbreak that families must endure in their final farewell to loved ones lost to Covid-19.

6. Former attorney-general Tommy Thomas' memoir sheds light on how PAS helped save his job, how Muhyiddin Yassin reacted to the LTTE 12 cases being dropped, and how Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was almost appointed interim prime minister.