Deputy Health Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni says ventilators were procured on a cash-and-carry basis with no proper procedures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says temperatures are being monitored round the clock.

This is only the third time New Zealand has declared a state of emergency – the other two were the 2019 Christchurch attacks and 2020 Covid pandemic.

The toll of victims from the landslide in Casamicciola has risen to seven dead, while five are missing.

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has revoked the six ordinances and proclamations of emergency promulgated in 2020 to prevent the holding of by-elections in Batu Sapi, Gerik and Bugaya amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

A three-man Federal Court bench in a majority 2-1 decision allowed the applications by Anwar, Pulai MP Salahuddin Ayub, Sungai Petani MP Johari Abdul, Tebing Tinggi assemblyman Abdul Aziz Bari and Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim.

He says the deaths of more than 900,000 Americans from Covid-19 emphasises the need to respond to the pandemic with 'the full capacity' of the federal government.

He says this is to return the mandate to the people in the formation of a new state government.

The city administration says people should register their weapons and gather in their neighbourhoods, while house-to-house searches are being conducted and troublemakers arrested.

The planned move will mean 33 of Japan's 47 regions are under heightened anti-infection rules.

Virus emergency measures will be expanded to additional areas, with the restrictions in all parts of the country running until Sept 12.

On Thursday, the city reported 5,042 cases, up from 3,865 a week earlier, and 1,979 the week before that.