[PODCAST] Daily Dose @ 5: Prosecution closes case in Ahmad Zahid's trial, India reports nearly 40K new COVID-19 cases in a day

Among the headlines for Friday, 19 March, 2021, the prosecution's case in former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's CBT, corruption and money laundering trial came to a close today after 99 witnesses testified in the trial, which began on Nov 18, 2019.

Also, India recorded a whopping 39,726 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, pushing the country caseload to 1,15,14,331, while the death toll soared to 159,370 with 154 more fatalities.

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