Less strict MCO 3.0 will still help lower infectivity rate, minister says


Alfian Z.M. Tahir

Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob says the government needed to balance lives and livelihoods as introducing a full MCO would hurt the poor and the economy further. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 11, 2021.

THE Covid-19 infectivity rate can still be lowered even though the third movement-control order (MCO 3.0) is less strict than the first lockdown last year, Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.

The National Security Council spokesman said the government needed to balance lives and livelihoods as introducing a full MCO would hurt the poor and the economy further.


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