KUCHING: The Health Ministry today announced another fatality from rabies in Sarawak, bringing the total number so far this year in the state to four.

KUCHING: Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing is still mourning the demise of his younger brother Jantai Masing, 68, who died due to Covid-19 at the Kapit Hospital on May 31, just a day before the Dayaks in the State ushered in the Gawai celebration.

KUCHING: Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas (pic) wants Dayaks in the state to take stock from the Pasai Cluster as one of the reasons not to return to their longhouses or villages during this Gawai Festival which begins today (Tuesday).

KUCHING: The entire Sarawak will be placed under the Movement Control Order (MCO) from Saturday to June 11, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas (pic).

KUCHING: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has advised the Sarawak state government to continue functioning as usual although the term of the State Legislative Assembly ends after this June 6.

KUCHING: The average daily death toll involving Covid-19 patients in Sarawak has increased three-folds in three months with three deaths reported every day this month from only one a day in March.

KUCHING: Seven cases of the South African B.1.351 variant of the Covid-19 virus have been detected in Kuching district recently, according to the Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM) of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas).

KUCHING: Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) will leave it to the wisdom of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Yang Dipertua Negeri of Sarawak Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud to decide on the appropriate time to dissolve the State Legislative Assembly (Dun).

KUCHING: Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing (pic) maintained that the State Government will not, for now, do away with the Cabotage Policy that bans foreign-owned vessels from operating within the domestic waters of Malaysia.

KUCHING: The Philippine variant or the P.3 variant of the Covid-19 virus have been detected in Sarawak, according to Sarawak Covid-19 Advisory Group (SCOVAG).