Malaysia to Use Hospital Cases as Gauge for Easing Covid Curbs.

(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia will shift to using the number of newsymptomatic Covid-19 hospital admissions as a gauge for whetherto ease curbs in states in the first phase of its National RecoveryPlan, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The indicator will replace the current measure -- daily Covid-19cases -- if a state's level of full vaccinations with a double dosereaches 50% of adults, Finance Minister Zafrul Tengku AbdulAziz said in the statement. [Extracted from the article]

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