[PODCAST] Daily Dose @ 5: Malaysia reports 4,626 COVID-19 cases, China dismisses US COVID-19 origins report
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AMONG the headlines for Monday, November 1, 2021, Malaysia’s COVID-19 infections dropped to 4,626 today, making it the second consecutive day that cases have been below the 5,000-mark.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 2,476,268.
Also, Beijing has dismissed a US review into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the use of intelligence agencies was “ironclad proof of politicisation”.
In the 18-page report, the US intelligence community concluded that the coronavirus had not been developed as a biological weapon, but could not determine if it had infected humans as a result of contact with animals or from a laboratory accident.
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