Covid-19 infiltrates Klang hospital and other news you may have missed

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

1. Scores of staff and patients at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang, have been infected with Covid-19. The Selangor Health Department said the source of the infection is unknown but the situation is under control and the hospital remains operational.

2. Pakatan Harapan has called off its presidential council meeting, purportedly due to unease over the joint call from DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mohamad Sabu for a “political reset”.

3. Malaysiakini has opened the polls again for readers to pick the top news and newsmakers of this tumultuous year.

4. Friends and family members of the nurse Mariani Sulaiman, who succumbed to Covid-19 on Tuesday, remember her fondly as a dedicated nurse and a good friend.

5. The High Court in Ipoh has ordered to the police to submit an affidavit within three weeks detailing their efforts to arrest M Indira Gandhi’s fugitive ex-husband Muhammad Riduan Abdullah and recover her youngest daughter Prasana Diksa.

6. Penang is gazetting more of its permanent forest reserves as water catchment areas as demands grow in Kedah for Penang to pay for drawing raw water from Sungai Muda.

7. Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz gave his assurance that Penang’s ferry service will continue, while Transport Minister Wee Ka Siong said it was the Harapan administration that mooted replacing the existing ferries with catamarans.

8. Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto has urged for a parliamentary debate on a new anti-sexual harassment law, while authorities prepare to press charges next week against a pastor accused of molesting his deaf and mute followers.

9. Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa remained adamant that only locals will be allowed to work at the Kuala Lumpur wholesale market next year, while official statistics revealed that fewer than 10,000 locals have taken up 100,000 vacancies left by migrant workers since the beginning of the pandemic.

10. Perikatan Nasional lawmakers have called for Batu MP P Prabakaran to be referred to the Rights and Privileges Committee for an alleged violation of a home surveillance order by attending Parliament while he was supposed to be in quarantine.