AMONG the headlines for Monday, January 17, 2022, a total of  2,342 new COVID-19 cases were reported by the Ministry of Health today.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brings the overall total to more than 2.8 million.

Also,  millions of Americans hunkered down as a major winter storm hit the eastern United States with heavy snow and ice knocking power out for an estimated 145,000 customers as of yesterday evening.

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