THE National Security Council has listed activities and economic sectors that remain prohibited despite the government’s move to allow nearly all sectors operate from May 4 under a conditional movement control order (MCO).

Prohibited activities remain those that involve mass gatherings or close body contact.

Those that are allowed to resume operations have to abide by health standard operating procedures (SOP) to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and failure to do so makes companies liable to legal action and revocation of their operating licences, the council said today.

The following are the list of prohibited activities, which the council said can be revised from time to time, depending on the situation:

1. Entertainment and recreation

Cinemas

Karaoke centres

Theme parks

Museums

Busking

2. Festivities, processions and gatherings

Religious processions

Congregational gatherings as mosques/houses of worship

Parades by security forces

Large Hari Raya gatherings unless involving immediate family members (travel for Hari Raya holidays will be announced later).

3. Conferences and exhibitions

Career fairs

Wedding expos

Tourism promotion fairs

Sales carnivals

All sorts of conferences that involve large gatherings of people.

4. Education

School sports activities

Co-curricular activates involving close contact

Any type of school gathering

Any gathering or programme involving more than 10 people.

5. Sports

Spectator sports events

All indoor sports including in gymnasiums

Water sports in swimming pools

Contact sports including rugby, boxing, wrestling, football and basketball.

6. Social activities

Feast gatherings

Wedding receptions, birthday parties and similar celebrations

7. Transport

Cruise ships

8. Businesses at premises/hawking without fixed premises/market buildings/markets without a building/sundry shops/convenience stores

Those that have been allowed to operate must not allow crowding of customers at any given time (measured by a minimum distance of 1 metre between customers).

Ramadan bazaars

Hari Raya bazaars.

9. Workers’ hostels/accommodation for manufacturing and other sectors

Not allowed to receive visitors

No socialising in groups or group sports

No group prayers or other religious activities in groups.

10. Installation and servicing/maintenance of equipment such as lifts, escalators as well as crane operations at construction sites

No work to be carried out in groups of more than 10 people.

11. Fashion and accessories shops

Clothes fittings

12. Self-service laundrettes

No folding clothes at the premises

13. Ceramah/seminars/courses/training sessions that involve close contact

14. Certification activities for agri-commodities

15. Barber shops and salons

16. Banking and financial services

No sales and marketing outside the institution’s premises, or in public places.

17. Forestry management

Forest eco-tourism

Forestry training.

18. Mining and quarrying

No new approvals for theoretical examinations or practical explosions.

19. Agriculture and Farming

Hari Bertemu Pelanggan

Hari Jualan Barang Bekalan Ladang(BBL)

Fruit carnivals

Courses and seminars

Conventions by agricultural institutions

Produce and livestock auctions such as for chickens, eggs and meat.

20. Fishing

No recreational fishing

Marine parks, fish exhibitions and aquariums.

21. Creative Industry

Filming

Events/concerts/programmes that involve the public in a studio or in a public area.

22. Cultural and Arts

Exhibitions that involve interactions between the artist(s) and guests.

23. Tourism and hotels

No usage of hotel facilities such as surau, gym, spa, sauna, lounge, swimming pool, meeting rooms, seminar halls, training rooms, restaurants and cafes including buffets. – May 1, 2020.