Over 810,000 people affected by northeast monsoon in late 2022, Parliament told


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 818,130 people were affected by the northeast monsoon season that hit the country late last year, says Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor Ming.

He added in a Parliamentary written reply that this includes 57 deaths, and then said that figutes from the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) showed that 236,664 heads of households were impacted from across the country as of Jan this year.

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