Malaysia’s government will increase COVID-19 healthcare spending by another 200 million ringgit ($48.3 million) to help tackle a surge in cases during recent weeks, the state news agency reported on Saturday.
The funding boost brings the government’s total healthcare allocations to fight the coronavirus to 1 billion ringgit, along with a further 5 billion ringgit earmarked last month for the purchase and roll out of vaccines, the Bernama agency reported.
($1 = 4.1390 ringgit)
To know more read the entire news report originally published in Thomson Reuters Foundation News here.
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