1. The Health Ministry detected 25 myocarditis cases within 21 days of a Covid-19 vaccination between February to September 2021.
This is out of 433,674 hospital admissions in KKM's Case-Based Monitoring of Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination (SAFECOVAC) study.
2. Health DG Dr Noor Hisham says 14 cases were linked to the Cominarty (Pfizer) vaccine, 9 to the CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccine and 2 to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
3. The absolute incidence rate was 0.9 per million doses administered for Cominarty, 0.5 for CoronaVac and 0.7 for AstraZeneca.
For those aged below 30 years, the true myocarditis incidence rate was 0.87 per million doses administered for Cominarty and 0.49 for CoronaVac.
1. Malaysiakini reports that Johor may dissolve its state assembly not long after Chinese New Year.
Pulai MP Salahuddin Ayub reportedly received credible information that Johor Menteri Besar Hasni Mohammad will be ordered by his party UMNO to call for elections.
2. "They are only delaying it because they are afraid the rakyat would scold them as they (the people) are busy and saddened by the floods, which are happening nationwide and which hit Johor last week," Malaysiakini quoted Salahuddin as saying.
3. An UMNO source also told the online news portal that the party is preparing for elections in Johor, and is waiting for the right time to do so.
"We are just waiting for the 'green light' to dissolve the state assembly," the source told Malaysiakini.
1. The mosque committee which washed a teenager like a corpse will not issue a public apology over the punishment, which has been likened to torture by netizens.
FMT reports that the teen Daniel Iskandar's father is seeking an apology from the mosque for humiliating his son.
2. Rosli Sidek, Daniel's grandfather, also told FMT that Daniel's father plans to take legal action against the mosque.
However, one of the mosque's committee members told FMT otherwise, claiming they have met Daniel's father and that he has no problem with them.
3. The committee member also did not believe the punishment was a form of abuse as they wanted to teach the boy a lesson.
The committee member denied that the committee had circulated the video on social media, saying that they are trying to track down the person who did so.
1. Online court hearings will be the way forward for the judicial system, even as Malaysia gradually returns to normalcy.
"Virtual courts have now become an indelible aspect of our system of advocacy," said Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.
2. "The advent of online hearings is not merely a means to cope with the pandemic but a permanent feature of our justice system."
"There is, therefore, no question of ‘reverting’ (to physical hearings),” Tengku Maimun said in her speech at the Opening of the Legal Year 2022.
3. In addition to providing greater court access to those who require it, the country's top judge also said judges have adjusted well to remote hearing, at least in the context of civil cases, criminal applications and appeals.
1. The imam involved in the punishment of a teenager by washing him like a corpse, has resigned.
"An imam’s duty is to give advice and guidance to troubled individuals and not mete out punishments," Selangor religious affairs exco Zawawi Ahmad told FMT.
3. Meanwhile, Yeoh, a former ballet dancer and one-time “Miss Malaysia,” first found fame as an actress performing her own stunts in Hong Kong action movies in the 90’s.
Her upcoming project is co-producing a television series based on the 1MDB scandal.