Malaysia to Stop Using Daily Covid Cases to Decide States' Reopenings.

(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia will no longer use daily virusinfections as a metric to ease curbs for states once theyenter the second phase of the national recovery plan,Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said. The government will instead use Covid hospitalizationrate as one of the three indicators to allow states tomove to the third and the final phase of the plan, hesaid in a video posted on his Facebook page. [Extracted from the article]

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