{"id":152531,"date":"2021-05-10T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=152531"},"modified":"2023-07-21T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T03:25:12","slug":"malaysia-placed-under-another-nationwide-mco-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=152531","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia placed under another nationwide MCO &#8211; PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Hakim Mahari<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2021: Malaysia will be imposing a nationwide movement control order (MCO) beginning on Wednesday (May 12) until 7 June to stem the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country, Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said in a statement that the decision was taken by the National Security Council &#8211; the decision-making body on the pandemic &#8211; during a meeting chaired by him earlier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the third major shutdown imposed since the onset of the pandemic in Malaysia, and will likely be the strictest since March last year when much of Malaysia&#8217;s economy was shuttered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tan Sri Muhyiddin said economic activities will continue throughout the country, but all social activities, events, dining-in at restaurants, and inter-district and inter-state travel are banned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel across state and district lines is only allowed for work, emergencies, medical appointments, visiting spouses and for vaccination appointments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only selective outdoor exercises are allowed under the new order, which will last until 7 June, the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister stressed that the government has decided to take stricter steps to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the community and to prevent cases from rising sharply.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Data and science continued to show that assembly activities&nbsp;that made social distancing difficult and the presence of people in congested spaces are major causes of COVID-19 transmission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The infection chain of COVID-19 can only be broken by encouraging the people to stay at home through strict movement controls,&#8221; the Prime Minister added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement comes just days before Hari Raya Aidilfitri which will be celebrated on Thursday at the end of the fasting month.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hakim Mahari KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2021: Malaysia will be imposing a nationwide movement control order (MCO) beginning on Wednesday (May 12) until 7&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,230,232,156],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152548,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152531\/revisions\/152548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}