KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 20): Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) has said its Sabah branch's daily operating hours will be temporarily revised to between 9.30am and 2pm effective from Monday (Feb 21, 2022) until further notice as Maybank continues to safeguard its customers' and employees' well-being at a time when Malaysia's daily number of new Covid-19 cases spikes to a record high of above 28,000 infections.

In an announcement on Friday (Feb 18, 2022), Maybank said its customers' and employees' safety remained the financial services group's utmost priority.

"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding and patience. Stay safe!" Maybank said.

"During this period, our self-service terminals will continue to operate from 6am till 12am midnight.

"We encourage you to perform all your essential banking via Maybank2u, Maybank2u Biz and Maybank2E from the safety of your home," Maybank said.

Maybank's latest announcement on Friday on the group's website followed one on Monday (Feb 14) when the group said that due to the recent spike in Covid-19 cases in Malaysia, Maybank had since Monday (Feb 14) revised its customer service operating hours to 9am to 6pm, from Mondays to Fridays.

"The team will however still continue to operate 24/7 for critical services such as lost or stolen cards, fraud related issues, ATM/self-service terminal queries, and Maybank2u password-related matters," Maybank said.

Malaysia's confirmed daily number of new Covid-19 cases climbed to a record high of 28,825 on Saturday (Feb 19) from 27,808 a day earlier, the Ministry of Health said.

These brought the nation's total number of infections to 3.19 million since the pandemic began in early 2020, according to the ministry.

The previous record high daily figure of fresh pandemic cases of 27,831 was reported on Wednesday.

Malaysia's daily number of new Covid-19 cases spiked to the current level above 20,000 from the 5,566 infections reported on Feb 1, 2022.

At Bursa Malaysia on Friday (Feb 18, 2022), Maybank's share price closed down two sen or 0.23% to RM8.66 for a market value of about RM102.88 billion.

Maybank's latest reported number of issued shares stood at 11.88 billion.