Dr Zaliha said she would meet Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek soon to discuss the guidelines and standard operating procedure for students, which will be issued before school reopens next week.

According to the official Health Ministry data, the number of cases increased by 87.5 per cent in the last 14 days up to April 8, while the number of hospital admissions recorded an increase of 30.5 per cent.

She said for adolescents aged 12 to 18, there were a total of 2,858,927 or 91.9 per cent of this segment who completed the primary dose, while 60,414 or 1.9 per cent had received the first booster dose.

Over the past week, an average of 7.9 people were reported to have died of COVID-19, while the average for the past 30 days was 7.4, indicating that Covid-19 deaths are on the uptrend.

"In the past, (medicine supply) was slow due to raw materials arriving late, sudden high demand and the Movement Control Order."

A total of 53 are in ICU with 35 in need of respiratory assistance. ICU utilisation throughout the country stands at 61.7%, with Covid ICU utilisation at 12.9%.

Five fatalities were reported yesterday, of which two were declared dead on arrival (DOA), taking the death toll in the country to 35,816.

"Berhadapan dengan ketidaktentuan politik semasa serta kesan melarat pandemik Covid-19 tumpuan kita tidak boleh sama sekali terganggu daripada ikhtiar untuk membela nasib rakyat."

Bekalan air di wilayah Petaling, Klang/Shah Alam, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Hulu Selangor, Kuala Langat dan Kuala Selangor telah stabil sepenuhnya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap merasmikan Program Muzakarah Ulama Umara sempena Festival Turath Islami Selangor 2023 di sebuah hotel di Shah Alam di sini pada Khamis.

Menteri Besar Selangor (Pemerbadanan) atau MBI menyumbang RM3,000 kepada tiga keluarga mangsa kebakaran di Hulu Langat baru-baru ini. Ketua Tanggungjawab Sosial Korporatnya Ahmad Azri Zainal Nor berkata selain kit kebersihan dan makanan retort, pihaknya menghulurkan bantuan awal RM300 bagi setiap keluarga bagi meringankan beban mereka.