“The ETS service will be operational with 12 trips daily compared to only two now. The route covers the sectors of Gemas-Padang Besar, KL Sentral-Ipoh, Gemas-Butterworth and vice versa."

He said a total of 778 ICU cases were recorded in the 40th epidemiology week, dropping by nine per cent compared to the 39th week, while 331 cases requiring respiratory aid in the 40th week registered an 11.2 percent drop compared to the number of cases recorded in the 39th week.

BH sebelum ini menyatakan sehingga kini terdapat 5.2 peratus individu belum divaksin. Peratusan berkenaan membabitkan kira-kira 1.224 juta penduduk dewasa di seluruh negara.

For now, he said there were more than 180 SOP being enforced to curb and prevent the spread of the virus.

“The self-screening test can be done at least once a week to curb Covid-19 transmission at their premises. This also applies to other tour operators who are directly involved in the tourism bubble programme."

Arjunaidi berkata, bagi jenayah harta benda pula, untuk tempoh yang sama sudah berada di bawah nilai ambang iaitu 195.44 kes atau bersamaan dengan 13 peratus.

Meanwhile, he said the ministry has planned and is prepared to address the emergence of new variants of Covid-19 which includes the control of international entrance to prevent the entry of new variants into Malaysia from abroad by doing a risk assessment of travellers from countries at risk.