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Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that children from wealthy families still benefit from govt-funded educational facilities over the poor.

The virus has now been identified in more than 50 new countries outside the countries in Africa where it is endemic.

The government would focus on facilitating employment, re-employment, and social protection as well as targeted assistance to provide the optimum social safety net for vulnerable groups.

The coordination of care centre registration will be among the key issues that will be addressed by the Special Cabinet Committee for Protecting Vulnerable Groups.

A Special Cabinet Committee for Protecting Vulnerable Groups has been set up to safeguard the welfare of these people, especially children, persons with disabilities (PwD), women and senior citizens.

The government will review the fuel and cooking oil subsidy mechanism so that it will be more targeted towards aiding and subsidising the vulnerable groups and those who really need help.

RM23 billion will be allocated for the COVID-19 Fund in 2022 with the bulk of allocation to be provided for cash assistance, social support to vulnerable groups and Wage Subsidy Programme.

Ras Adiba said people with albinism are among the vulnerable groups who were often forgotten.

Free volunteer services are also offered through the initiative for the elderly, the disabled and the needy, to get to vaccination centres.

A total of 2.8 million high-risk informal workers will lose their source of income if a full-scale Movement Control Order (MCO) is implemented, said Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz.

Currently, the MOH was still using the nasopharyngeal (nose) and oropharyngeal (throat) swab methods to detect COVID-19 cases.

AMM has urged the government to clarify where high-risk groups fall on the priority list in the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme.

COVID-19 vaccination mobile units will be activated to vaccinate senior citizens and vulnerable groups who are too frail to go to a vaccination centre.

As women are among the vulnerable groups affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a special action plan for women and families during the pandemic needs to be developed immediately.

In its plans, the government should also prioritise locations with dense populations as they carry higher risk of COVID-19 transmissions, said Prof Datuk Dr Subramaniam Muniandy.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.