{"id":11930,"date":"2021-10-07T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2021-10-07T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:33:09","slug":"the-government-will-not-arbitrarily-open-borders-ismail-sabri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11930","title":{"rendered":"The government will not arbitrarily open borders &#8211; Ismail Sabri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 \u00a0&#8212; The government will not arbitrarily open the country\u2019s borders to foreign travelers\u00a0as permission for entry will depend on the COVID-19 situation in their countries\u00a0of origin, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, he said the government only allowed those who were fully vaccinated to enter the country, but the borders are still closed for\u00a0tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png\" alt=\"arbitrarily\" class=\"wp-image-11931\" width=\"517\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png 587w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05-185x100.png 185w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05-350x189.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we were to open the country\u2019s\u00a0borders to foreign travelers, every development (related to COVID-19) in their countries\u00a0of origin will be taken into consideration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn every decision, we (the government) will seek the advice and recommendations from the Ministry of Health based on their risk assessments. We will not arbitrarily open the borders,\u201d he said during question time at the Dewan Negara sitting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister was replying to&nbsp;Senator Datuk Razali Idris on whether the government had a backup crisis management plan if the number of COVID-19 cases spiked&nbsp;again following the spread of new variants if the borders were to be opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2011118\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 \u00a0&#8212; The government will not arbitrarily open the country\u2019s borders to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-12.31.05.png",587,317,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11932,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions\/11932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}