Hari Raya celebrations and visits out as Malaysia goes into lockdown

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KUALA LUMPUR Hari Raya celebrations and visits are 'completely prohibited', said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin as Malaysia yesterday imposed a nationwide lockdown. The country is grappling with a surge in coronavirus cases and highly infectious variants that the...

All inter-state and inter-district travel will be banned, along with social gatherings, but economic sectors will be allowed to continue, Mr Muhyiddin said, without elaborating.SCHOOLS CLOSED

Schools and universities will be closed, except for those hosting international exams. Childcare centres and kindergartens will stay open. Mr Muhyiddin said a three-person limit to private vehicles, taxis and e-hailing vehicles will be enforced. "Vehicles that are a part of the industrial and economic sectors will have its passengers limited based on the relevant licences," he said.

He added that employers must enforce a work-from-home order, with no more than 30 per cent of its management in office at any one time."We flattened the curve during the first and second wave."We have not won. God willing, we will beat this virus," he said.- REUTERS, THE STAR, AFP

 

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