The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has given the Health Ministry two months to respond to five suggestions in its report that revealed irregularities in government procurements during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

PAC chairperson Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said a letter will be sent to the ministry on the matter, after which a subsequent report will be released.

Andy Hall has written to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights with details of the current situation in Malaysia which he describes as ‘dire’.

PSM activist Chong Yee Shan was also injured earlier after allegedly being shoved by an officer from the Land and Mines Office.