Mon 25 May 2020:
Eid has become a more sombre affair for Muslim Muslim Malaysian doctors, amid the coronavirus pandemic that has so far seen over 7,000 people in the country infected with the coronavirus, including 115 who have died of COVID-19.
Muslim-majority Malaysia has imposed widespread restrictions on movement since mid-March in a bid to stem the virus outbreak.
Medical workers on the front line of Malaysia’s #coronavirus pandemic are unable to celebrate #EidAlFitr with family this year. pic.twitter.com/pYDwdaRW6e
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) May 25, 2020
COVID-19 emerges in Malaysia immigration detention centres
Malaysia’s top civil servant in the health ministry has called for medical attention and decontamination in the country’s immigration detention centres after three were found to have cases of coronavirus.
Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, who is secretary-general at the Ministry of Health, said there should ne no discrimination against non-Malaysians in dealing with the virus.
“We need to enhance the active cases detection and isolate and treat those positive cases immediately,” Dr Noor Hisham wrote on his Facebook page. “Quarantine those close contacts and decontaminate the respective centres. The virus knows no boundaries and does not favour any ethnicity and social status.”
Malaysia has carried out a series of raids on undocumented migrants during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. Health ministry data shows 115 confirmed cases across the three centres.
Russia’s coronavirus infections pass 350,000
Cases of the coronavirus in Russia climbed to 353,427, having risen by 8,946 in the past 24 hours, the country’s coronavirus crisis response centre said.
It said the number of fatalities had risen by 92 overnight, taking the overall nationwide death toll from the virus to 3,633.
-Al Jazeera News Agency
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