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W.H.O. MULA GUNA ISTILAH BARU "FIZIKAL" GANTI "SOSIAL"

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THE World Health Organization (WHO) has started using the phrase "physical distancing" instead of "social distancing" as a way to prevent the spread of the  novel coronavirus  from people to people, a move widely welcomed by experts as a step in the "right direction". PERTUBUHAN Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) sudah memulakan penggunaan istilah baru "kejarakan fizikal" daripada istilah sebelumnya "kejarakan sosial", sebagai satu cara mencegah penularan virus novel Corona dari manusia ke manusia yang lain, satu langkah yang disambut baik pakar-pakar antarabangsa yang menyifatkannya sebagai satu tindakan "ke arah yang betul".  At a daily news briefing on March 20, officials of the global health body  said  while maintaining a physical distance was "absolutely essential" amid the global pandemic, "it does not mean that socially we have to disconnect from our loved ones, from our family." Dalam...

ZURAIDA BODOH DAN TIDAK BERTANGGUNGJAWAB, KOMEN PAKAR

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Zuraida Kamaruddin, menteri perumahan dan kerajaan tempatan INILAH wajah jelita seorang menteri.  Menteri ini dilihat cuba mencari publisiti murahan tidak bertempat di saat-saat negara sedang menghadapi suasana getir krisis Covid-19. Percubaan yang tidak sepatutnya dilakukan oleh seorang menteri itu akhirnya bagaikan menjadi senjata makan tuan . Penampilan beliau dengan pakaian seperti kakitangan barisan hadapan Hospital Sungai Buloh merawat pesakit yang dijangkiti virus Corona itu mencadangkan beliau sepatutnya berada di hospital berkenaan. Perhatian yang diharap, kecaman demi kecaman pula yang diterima.  Tidak kurang juga pengguna media sosial dan ahli politik yang mengambil kesempatan untuk melepaskan geram terhadap bekas naib presiden PKR itu yang baharu sahaja melompat dari Pakatan Harapan ke Perikatan Nasional. Malaysiakini melaporkan, tindakan Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Zuraida Kamaruddin, yang semalam menyertai - dan terl...

PEMANDU GRAB BOLEH GUNA KERETA HANTAR MAKANAN

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DUA syarikat utama penghantaran makanan menambah jumlah penghantarnya bagi menangani peningkatan permintaan sejak perintah kawalan pergerakan (PKP) dilaksanakan 18 Mac lalu, demikian menurut laporan FMT . Shubham Saran, ketua logistik Foodpanda Malaysia memberitahu, jumlah penghantar syarikat itu meningkat 7.5% dan permohonan kerja naik 37%. Beliau berkata, syarikatnya mula mengambil sejumlah penghantar baru seminggu sebelum PKP mula dikuatkuasakan. “Untuk menampung keadaan semasa, kami mengalu-alukan sesiapa saja yang memerlukan peluang pekerjaan sementara menghubungi kami melalui laman pengambilan penghantar kami.” Grab guna pemandu kereta e-hailing jadi penghantar makanan dan barang keperluan kerana permintaan untuk pemandu kereta Grab merosot teruk Jurucakap Grab berkata, syarikat itu memutuskan untuk menggunakan pemandu e-hailingnya menyokong khidmat penghantaran makanan dan barang keperluan. Katanya, khidmat e-hailing merosot sejak PKP bermula. “Apabila P...

ONE PERSON PER CAR RULE ON APRIL 1

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Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakub UNDER the second phase of the movement control order (MCO), the government would restrict the number of people in a privately owned car. According to Defence Minister Ismail Sabri, only one person would be allowed to travel in a car effective April 1. “Phase 2 will commence on April 1. We will increase (the regulations) in terms of movement control... “ I wish to stress that under Phase 2, movement is still permitted. “But as mentioned earlier, when using a personal car, you are allowed to purchase groceries and whatnot but it will be limited to one person per car,” he told a press conference in Putrajaya yesterday. Previously, the National Security Council had mandated that only the "head of the family" was allowed to do grocery shopping. On March 21, Works Minister Fadillah Yusof said that the  guidelines , rather than a rule, was that police may allow extra occupants in the vehicle if there are valid reason...

GLOBAL: LEBIH 720,000 DIJANGKITI VIRUS CORONA (MORE than 720,000 infected Corona Virus)

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In WASHINGTON,  AFP reported that President Donald Trump said yesterday that the peak death rate in the US from the coronavirus pandemic was likely to hit in two weeks and extended “social distancing” guidelines until April 30. Di Washington, AFP melaporkan Presiden Donald Trump berkata semalam kadar kematian tinggi di Amerika akibat pandemik virus Corona mungkin berterusan selama dua minggu dan garis panduan "penjarakan sosial" dilanjutkan sehingga 30 April 2020. “Easter should be the peak number,” Trump said of the Christian holiday which falls on April 12. "Hari Easter akan membawa jumlah tinggi," kata Trump merujuk kepada cuti penganut agama Kristian yang jatuh pada 12 April. “The modelling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in two weeks,” the president said during a televised briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House. Presiden Amerika itu berkata demikian di Rose Garden, Rumah Putih yang disiarkan stesen-stesen tal...