The Ministry of Health Malaysia has issued a media statement regarding the press conference held on the Current Developments of the New Omicron Variant (B.1.1.529), Status of Postponement for Travel to Perform Umrah as well as the Strengthening the Booster Dosage Program and AEFI reports – media statement as follows:

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS OF OMICRON NEW VARIANTS (B.1.1.529)

The Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) would like to inform that a total of 44 positive cases of COVID- 19 were confirmed with the Omicron variant through full genome sequencing (WGS) conducted by the Institute Medical Research (IMR) and seven (7) COVID-19 positive cases of local infections in Sarawak have been confirmed with the Omicron variant by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).

On behalf of the Malaysian Danish Business Council (MDaBC), EUROCHAM Malaysia would like to invite our members to participate in the upcoming webinar on the topic of Investing in Employee Wellness to Boost Employee Engagement will be held on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 at 4 PM (+8 GMT).

The study has shown 15% of employees are engaged and reshaping the employee experience is crucial to engage employees with a focus on employee well-being, employee needs, and wants.

During this webinar session, the speaker will take you through a few major points which are related to understanding employee engagement, the challenges of driving employee engagement, the impact of employee wellbeing on employee engagement and how to boost it, as well as showcasing some customer testimonials and an online demo/live demo.

We are pleased to share that EUROCHAM Malaysia together with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Malaysia, Economic Planning Unit Sarawak Malaysia, and Belgium-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce would like to extend an invitation to all our members to participate in a jointly organised panel session on the Post COVID-19 Development Strategy 2030: Trade and Investment Opportunities in Sarawak, happening virtually Thursday, 13 January 2022 from 4 PM to 6 PM (+8 GMT).

This will be an interesting panel session where there will be a line-up of extraordinary panelists that includes, HE Mr. Pascal Gregoire, Ambassador of Belgium, Malaysia, Datu Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Zaidel, Director, Economic Planning Unit Sarawak, Datuk Abang Haji Abdul Karim bin Tun Datuk Abang Haji Openg, President, Sarawak Business Federation, Mr. Daniel Pans, President of BeLuxCham Malaysia, Mr. Sven Schneider, Chief Executive Officer of EUROCHAM Malaysia, Mr. Hans Michiels, HLM International Sdn. Bhd., as well as LONGi (Kuching) Sdn. Bhd., HGST Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and X-FAB Sarawak Sdn. Bhd.

A total of 22,859,803 individuals or 97.7% of the adult population in the country had completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Saturday.

Based on the Ministry of Health's COVIDNOW portal, 23,151,949 individuals or 98.9% of the group had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

For the adolescent population, 87.6% or 2,756,306 individuals aged between 12 and 17 years had completed the vaccination, while 2,847,794 individuals or 90.5% had been given at least one dose of the vaccine.

EUROCHAM Malaysia would like to wish our Members and Friends a Happy New Year! We are truly thankful to have had the pleasure of working, engaging, and collaborating with all our members this year and we hope to continue to provide the utmost best service in the following years to come.

Wishing everyone a great year ahead, Happy 2022!