KUCHING: Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) Medical Social Services Department is appealing to the public to come forward if they know the identity of a male patient who was found by the roadside on Sunday. According to a press statement, the patient was brought to the hospital by the Civil Defence
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded two more deaths related to the Covid-19 outbreak yesterday, bringing the death toll to five. According to the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) secretariat, one of the victims was a 49-year-old man from Kuching — his mother died of the same disease on March 18 at her
KUCHING: Firefighters from the Tabuan Jaya fire station yesterday helped to recover a body from the Sarawak River at Bintawa here. The State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operations centre received a call for help at 12.50pm. After recovering the body, the firefighters turned it over to the police for
LUNDU: A woman in her 30s, believed to have gone missing on Sunday night, was found by local villagers yesterday afternoon. According to early reports, the local fire and rescue station first received a call from the police regarding a woman suspected to have gone missing in the Serayan Baru
KUCHING: The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) are already deployed to assist the Royal Malaysia Police Force (PDRM) to enforce the movement control order (MCO). New Sarawak Tribune yesterday monitored their operations at Jalan Abell here where four soldiers from the 10th Rangers Unit stationed at Muara Tuang Camp were assisting
KUCHING: Malaysia now has 153 new confirmed Covid-19 cases, bringing the tally of positive cases up to 1,183 cases. In a statement issued by the Health Ministry (MoH), its director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah revealed that out of the figure, 90 cases were related to the ‘tabligh’ gathering cluster
KUCHING: Only unstable patients with medications to adjust and titrate should come to hospitals for follow ups. Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar Dr Abigail Rembui Jerip said, “Rescheduling appointments is a good idea for stable patients because many clinics have already started deferring the dates for appointments.
KUCHING: A man with underlying health conditions is the nation’s first fatality, after testing positive for Covid-19. The State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) Secretariat which confirmed the fatality identified the victim as Pastor David Cheng Lip Kiong from Emmanuel Baptist Church, who died yesterday. Sixty-year-old Cheng was the state’s second
KUCHING: Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii Lee Wuen announced yesterday on Facebook that he had tested positive for the Covid-19. Currently, he is treated at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) and quarantined for further monitoring based on standard procedures set by the Health Ministry. Yii said that he was in
KUCHING: Sarawak Teachers’ Union (STU) welcomes all announcements made by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. Its president Macky Joseph said this and hoped that all pupils and teachers are always kept up to date with the latest news on Covid-19.
