KLANG, Sandakan, Papar and Tuaran will be subject to a targeted conditional movement-control order (CMCO) from midnight October 9, according to Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Only essential services and approved industries are allowed to operate, and there will be no dining in restaurants.

The minister said the Selangor port city and three districts in Sabah have been identified as Covid-19 red zones and as such will be partially locked down.

“Looking at the increase in Covid-19 cases in these areas, the government has agreed to implement the CMCO starting October 9, 2020.

“The implementation of CMCO is to curb the infection and transmission of Covid-19 in the district as well as to enable targeted case-tracking to be carried out over a period of 14 days.

“Movement in and out of the four CMCO areas is not allowed,” Ismail Sabri said in a press conference today on Facebook live. 

The minister said the Selangor port city and three districts in Sabah have been identified as Covid-19 red zones and as such will be partially locked down.

Ismail Sabri also said the International Trade and Industry Ministry (MITI) will draft out the guidelines for factories and industries within the areas.

“MITI will list the types of necessary services involved in the area,” he said. 

Among the SOPs that were stipulated for these four areas include:

• Only two people from a house are allowed to leave for the purpose of obtaining food supplies/household necessities.
• Non-essential services and businesses must be closed.
• Restaurants, eateries, grocery stores and convenience stores are allowed to operate between 6am and 6pm.
• Petrol station operating hours between 6am to 6pm only.
• Daily market operations are between 6am to 2pm only.
• Operations of night markets, guest, wholesale markets, and farmers’ markets are not permitted.
• The operating hours of government and private clinics and hospitals are allowed 24 hours.
• Taxi/e-hailing service (maximum two passengers) and food deliveries are allowed to operate from 6am to 8pm only.
• Mosques, surau, non-Muslim houses of worship, public and private institutes of higher learning, skills training institute, schools, kindergartens, nurseries, tahfiz centres, child care centres are to be closed. – October 7, 2020.