KKMM berkata, polis Serdang menafikan pernah mengeluarkan kenyataan tentang ‘total lockdown’ selama 10 hari seperti mesej tular oleh seorang penjawat awam di ibu pejabat polis daerah itu.
KUALA LUMPUR: Pasukan respons pantas Kementerian Komunikasi dan Multimedia hari ini menyenaraikan 3 lagi berita palsu yang tular di media sosial berkait agensi bertanggungjawab dalam menangani krisis wabak Covid-19 di negara ini.
Dalam satu kenyataan ia menyebut, Kementerian Kesihatan (KKM) menafikan mesej mengatakan Skim Peduli Kesihatan untuk kumpulan B40 (Peka B40) memberi bantuan sebanyak RM250 sebulan adalah sebagai sebahagian daripada pakej rangsangan Covid-19 menerusi Pakej Rangsangan Ekonomi Prihatin Rakyat yang diumumkan.
KKM juga menafikan nota rakaman suara yang didakwa daripada Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan (Penyelidikan dan Sokongan Teknikal) Dr Christopher KC Lee, yang juga ketua pasukan Covid-19, Hospital Sungai Buloh bahawa surat yang diterima perlu diasingkan dan dibuka sehari kemudian kerana kononnya seseorang yang positif Covid-19 meludah pada surat sebelum diedarkan.
Dalam pada itu kenyataan yang sama berkata, ketua polis Daerah Serdang turut menafikan pernah mengeluarkan kenyataan tentang “total lockdown” selama 10 hari seperti mesej yang tular oleh seorang penjawat awam di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Serdang.
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Friday pledged US$800 million worth of support in response to the coronavirus pandemic for health organisations, researchers and businesses impacted by the crisis.
The aid will come in the form of cash, ad credits, and cloud services from the California-based internet colossus, according to chief executive Sundar Pichai.
Google will provide US$250 million in ad grants to the World Health Organization and more than 100 other public agencies around the world providing information to stem the spread of the coronavirus, according to Pichai.
Some US$340 million worth of free advertising will be made available to small- or medium-sized businesses in Google’s network that are taking financial hits as people stay home due to virus risk.
“We hope it will help to alleviate some of the cost of staying in touch with their customers,” Pichai said in a blog post.
A pool of US$20 million worth of credits for services hosted in the Google “cloud” will be available to researchers and academic institutions exploring ways to combat the deadly pandemic or that are tracking critical data about its spread.
Google will also match as much as US$10,000 in donations its employees make to organisations in their communities this year, increasing the amount from US$7,500.
“Together, we’ll continue to help our communities – including our businesses, educators, researchers, and nonprofits – to navigate the challenges ahead,” Pichai said.
Google has been pouring months into working with partners to ramp up production of protective gear such as face masks for health care providers.
Employees from Alphabet divisions including Google, Verily and X are providing engineering, supply chain and healthcare are working with equipment makers to increase the production of ventilators needed to keep some Covid-19 sufferers alive, according to Pichai.
Soldiers and police officers conducting checks at a roadblock on day five of the movement control order (MCO) in Sri Hartamas March 22,2020. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 ― The police have opened a special lane for frontline personnel to pass through at roadblocks mounted during the enforcement of the movement control order (MCO) until April 14.
Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcement director Datuk Azisman Alias said the lane, opened since yesterday, is for use by Health Ministry personnel such as doctors and nurses, the Royal Malaysia Police, the Malaysian Armed Forces and relevant agencies.
He said commercial vehicles, such as container lorries carrying food stuff and essential items, would also be allowed to use the lane.
“The purpose of opening the special lane is to ensure these frontline personnel arrive at their destinations on time and not get caught in traffic jams at road block inspections,” he told Bernama.
He said PLUS Malaysia Berhad would display information on the opening of this special lane on the VMS electronic display (Variable Message System) at all its expressways.
He appealed to those who have no reason to be on the road to stay at home.
The MCO was enforced since last March 18 to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, he reminded the public of the online summon payment campaign which provides discount of up to 50 per cent for those who pay up during the campaign period, which ends tomorrow. ― Bernama
FRANCE yesterday reported that 299 more people had died in hospital from the coronavirus epidemic over the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the epidemic in the country to 1,995.
Top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters that 32,964 people had tested positive for the virus so far in France, although the real number of cases is likely far higher as testing was reserved for high-risk patients.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba says Malaysia shares its efforts in addressing Covid-19 with health ministers worldwide. ― Picture by Choo Choy May
KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 ― Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba shared Malaysia’s efforts to address Covid-19 with health ministers around the world in a teleconference with the World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last night.
During the “Virtual Information Session On Covid-19 By WHO”, Dr Adham also took the opportunity to explain the level of preparedness by the Malaysian Health Ministry in curbing the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
“I held a Virtual Information Session On #COVID-19 By WHO with health ministers around the world, explaining the steps that have been taken, and are being carried out and the preparedness of @KKMPutrajaya,” he said via his Twitter account today.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry, in a statement on Facebook said the session on Covid-19 by WHO provided the ministry with the opportunity to share information on the latest Covid-19 outbreak and measures that were and being taken, as well as the ministry’s preparedness to handle the possibility of the infection becoming worse.
The session was also joined by Health Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Dr Chen Chaw Min and its director-general, Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. ― Bernama
MANUFACTURERS are on a mission to produce desperately needed medical ventilators for the coronavirus pandemic, even if it means converting assembly lines now making auto parts.
Along with a shortage of masks and gloves, the spread of Covid-19 to almost every corner of the globe has highlighted a great need for specialised machines that help keep severely afflicted patients alive.
NINETY-FIVE per cent of the participants of the Sri Petaling Mosque tabligh gathering have come forward to be tested for Covid-19, said Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador.
Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said that this package with an allocation of RM63,596,650 or RM63.6 million, including an RM84,000 allocation for food for 700 homeless individuals living here until March 31. — Picture by Hari Anggara
KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — The Cabinet today approved an aid package under the new “Wilayah Cakna” initiative worth RM63.6 million to help out small businesses, Covid-19 frontliners and patients, and residents in the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan to help them cope amid the government’s movement control order.
Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said that this package with an allocation of RM63,596,650 or RM63.6 million, including an RM84,000 allocation for food for 700 homeless individuals living here until March 31.
From this RM63.6 million package, the bulk of it or RM54.3 million (RM54,296,550) is to help Federal Territories residents comprising of the urban poor, the B40 group, students, homeless, small traders and hawkers, while RM5.9 million (RM5,945,100) is for Covid-19 frontliners comprising of medical and security personnel and the remaining RM3.4 million (RM3,335,000) is for patients, patients-under-investigation (PUI) and victims of Covid-19, he said.
Below is the breakdown of the RM63.6 million package announced by Annuar:
Government health workers attend to members of the public at the Kuala Lumpur Health Clinic March 24, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
1. Covid-19 frontliners
Food and drinks — RM180,100
Additional equipment — RM500,000
Finances and special allowances for medical personnel and movement control order enforcement personnel — RM5.415 million
2. Covid-19 patients, PUI, and victims
Patients, PUI and victims living costs and charity — RM85,000
Additional respiratory support equipment — RM3.27 million
3. Federal Territories residents and businesses
A. People’s Housing Project (PPR) and Public Housing (PA) MTEN-DBKL — RM4.96 million
40,000 tenants in PPR, PA MTEN-DBKL — One month rent exemption, two months’ rent postponement
6,000 buyers of PPR, PA MTEN-DBKL units — Postponement of three months’ payment without late payment penalty for units bought under Skim Pembiayaan Khas Syarikat Perumahan Wilayah Persekutuan, subsidiaries of Yayasan Wilayah Persekutuan
Customers pack food to go at an eatery in Kuala Lumpur March 24, 2020. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
B. Hawkers and small traders
Kuala Lumpur (RM4.2 million)
Three-months’ rent exemption for 6,000 hawkers
One-off RM500 contribution to 17,617 hawkers (bazaars, night markets, food trucks, roadside stalls, mobile hawkers, temporary permits, restricted hours, farmers’ market)
Putrajaya (RM800,000)
Two months’ rent exemption for Perbadanan Putrajaya premises (food court, public market, food truck)
Two months’ rent exemption for programme to sell daily necessities at Perbadanan Putrajaya premises
One-off RM500 contribution to hawkers and small traders
Labuan (RM100,000)
One-off RM500 contribution to hawkers and small traders
* Total for one-off RM500 for hawkers and small traders in KL, Putrajaya, Labuan is RM11,808,500 or RM11.8 million.
C. Others
Urban poor and B40
Kuala Lumpur (RM6.5 million)
Food packs to 65,000 poor families, B40 households
Putrajaya (RM100,000)
Food packs to 1,000 poor, B40 households
Exemption of late payment penalty for property assessment rates
Homeless
Food aid for 700 homeless persons until March 31, 2020 — RM84,000
The homeless can still be seen everywhere around the Kuala Lumpur city centre March 21, 2020, on the fourth day of the movement control order enforced to control the spread of Covid-19. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Asnaf zakat (Those eligible to receive aid from obligatory alms collected from Muslims) — RM12.098 million
Expedite monthly financial aid to 22,000 families
Special RM500 zakat to each of the 24,196 families
D. Students, cleaning, DBKL and Perbadanan Putrajaya employees
90 Pusrawi International College of Medical Sciences (Picoms) students — RM19,500
150 Kolej Profesional Baitumal KL students — RM36,150
Cleaning and disinfection work — RM1 million
Full monthly wage payment to DBKL and Perbadanan Putrajaya workers that receive daily income.
Malaysian Armed Forces and police personnel man a roadblock amid heavy traffic along the LDP in Petaling Jaya on March 25, 2020. — Picture by Choo Choy May
KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — The crime index has dropped 70 per cent nationwide since the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) which came into force March 18, says Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador.
He said although there was a decline in general, the police detected a significant number of cases involving burglaries and motorcycle thefts.
“They (criminals) are taking advantage of the situation to commit crimes during the MCO and we were able to detect them through roadblocks.
“When they see the police doing roadblocks they turn around,” he said in a special interview on the Selamat Pagi Malaysia programme aired on Radio Television Malaysia here, today.
Meanwhile, Abdul Hamid said 46,000 officers and policemen across the country were assigned to do roadblocks, conducts patrols and inspections on public premises, as well as to disseminate information on the implementation of the MCO.
“All of these (efforts) are very important for the public to reduce movement, and we will check whether these (members of the public) are among those who are allowed to leave the house or not,” he said.
Meanwhile, when asked about the public’s level of compliance with the implementation of the MCO, Abdul Hamid said the compliance rate had improved to date.
“Alhamdulillah, people are beginning to adhere to the MCO, and I urge the people to follow all the advice of the police and military throughout the period,” he said. — Bernama
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