News & Reviews:   Covid-19

If you’re worried that your overseas vacation would turn into a nightmare, fear not as we’ve got some travel tech tips that can allay your concerns. So, if you’re bound for an overseas trip in the near future, make sure to follow these tips for a smooth and trouble-free international travel experience.

Despite that many smartphones are rumoured to feature the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ made by TSMC, the chip could still face delay. According to reputable tipster Digital Chat Station, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ would only arrive by the second half of 2022.

If this made it to Malaysia, you might not need to spend much on COVID-19 test kits to check that you caught the disease. According to Daily Mail, scientists have built a mobile app that helps detect the virus through cough patterns via audio.

While the COVID-19 cases dramatically increased in the past few weeks, the Malaysian Medical Association suggests that the QR code scanning feature that we use to check into places is no longer helpful. The president, Dr Koh Kar Chai, also said that it might be time to consider taking down the feature from the MySejahtera app.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has revealed that 34.4% of the adult population in Malaysia has yet to get the Covid-19 vaccine booster dose. That amounts to approximately 7.5 million people in our country.

Furthermore, out of the number, Khairy said that 2.1 million are recipients of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine and another 835000 are senior citizens. He then urged the two categories above to take the booster dose by 1 April 2022 or risk losing their ‘fully vaccinated’ status in MySejahtera. 

Apple today released iOS 15.4 for all supported devices which comes with a quality-of-life update that a majority iPhone users have been waiting for: the ability to use Face ID with your face mask on. In case you missed it, check out our tutorial on how to set up ‘Face ID Mask Unlock’ on your iPhone as well as a summary of other new features available inside the update. 

Speaking of which, one of the more intriguing aspects of the update other than the Face ID Mask Unlock is Apple’s integration of Covid-19 vaccination certificates into Apple Health and Apple Wallet. In the footnotes of the iOS 15.4 update, it is stated that Apple Health can now support EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate which enables you to download and store verifiable versions of Covid-19 vaccination, lab results and recovery records.

Today, our Minister of Health Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar just announced a new website about travelling protocols amid the pandemic. Launched as covidprotocol.moh.gov.my, the web portal's purpose is to facilitate Malaysians and travellers entering in and out of the country.

With the rising cases of COVID-19 nowadays, you or other people that you know may have been labelled as casual contact in your MySejahtera (MySJ) app. That will change today as our Minister of Health, Khairy Jamaluddin officially tweeted that the MySJ trace and check-ins will no longer show that.

The COVID-19 cases in Malaysia have surged dramatically due to the Omicron wave. As a result of that, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has updated the measures to take for those infected by the virus. If you have found yourself positive after getting your test results, don't panic and follow these steps to perform a regular self-check on the MySejahtera app.

MySejahtera's new feature MySJ Trace is now live for all Android users! If you have no idea what is it, the feature utilizes Bluetooth to detect whether a person nearby is diagnosed with COVID-19. The system will then notify those who may have been in close contact with that person.