KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 -- Umno's Supreme Council member Datuk Lokman Noor Adam has agreed to publish a public apology and pay an undisclosed sum to former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin over a defamation suit about the latter's Covid-19 vaccination status back in 2022.

In today's court proceeding before High Court judge Johan Lee Kien How, Lokman's public apology - to be published on his Facebook and YouTube accounts in both Bahasa Malaysia and English - were part of the consent judgement recorded in court.

Today was initially fixed for a full hearing of the defamation suit.

Khairy's lawyer Abdul Rashid Ismail said the defendant has agreed to not republish or share the purported defamatory statement; including issuing an open apolog...