Conditional MCO, school closures in 4 districts and other news you may have missed

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

1. Schools will be closed from today in the districts of Klang in Selangor and in the Sandakan, Papar and Tuaran districts of Sabah, which will be placed under conditional movement control order restrictions from tomorrow to control the spread of Covid-19.

2. The Selangor Menteri Besar’s Office said standard operating procedures for the Klang conditional MCO has not yet been finalised and will be decided at a state security council meeting later this morning.

3. Malaysiakini revisits Covid-19 cases involving politicians returning from Sabah amid public anger against the so-called ‘Kluster Menteri’.

4. Following the death of Batu Sapi MP Liew Vui Keong, the Election Commission said it has no choice but to proceed to hold a by-election despite the Covid-19 situation in Sabah, while Umno Youth called for Warisan to be given a walkover in Batu Sapi to avoid the need for campaigning and polling.

5. Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak wants Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali to face charges for breaking his quarantine in July, in order to quell public anger and silence opposition propaganda on the matter.

6. The Penang Remand Prison said it adheres to SOPs to curb the spread of Covid-19 following the death of a Covid-19-infected inmate. However, the National Security Council has ordered the Prisons Department to design new procedures.

7. The group Lawyers for Liberty has sued the Malaysian government for allegedly failing to uphold the freedom of speech in the country from being encroached by Singapore’s anti-fake news law.

8. Former agriculture and agro-based industries minister Salahuddin Ayub has urged for paddy planters to be given the right to choose their paddy seed and fertiliser suppliers to avoid problems of price exploitation and supply shortages.

9. Rosmah Mansor had denied knowledge of key figures in the controversial solar hybrid energy project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak when her statement was recorded in 2018.

10. Former sawmill worker Mohammad Awari Ahmad has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a nurse in Gua Musang, Kelantan, on March 1, 2015.