{"id":4074,"date":"2020-06-05T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2020-06-05T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T05:36:20","slug":"special-message-on-short-term-economic-recovery-plan-by-pm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Special message on Short-term Economic Recovery Plan by PM today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 5\u00a0 – While awaiting the government\u2019s decision to extend or lift the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), which expires this Tuesday, Malaysians will look forward to an announcement on the Short-term Economic Recovery Plan in a special message by\u00a0Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin\u00a0today.<\/p>\n

The special message by the Prime Minister will be broadcast live at 3 pm by local\u00a0local television stations and social media networks.<\/p>\n

Looking back, the Movement Control Order (MCO) was enforced in the country last March 18 following the outbreak of COVID-19 and then the CMCO, from last May 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0implementation of the MCO and CMCO proved successful in combating the COVID-19 pandemic as seen with the drop in the daily number of new cases,\u00a0\u00a0thus enabling the government to allow more economic sectors to re-open in the country.<\/p>\n

It is obvious, the special message by Muhyiddin will be much awaited by the people, especially the economic industry players.<\/p>\n

On the COVID-19 situation in the country, although the number of daily cases surged to three digits, to 277 yesterday, from 93 cases the previous day, Malaysia is seen to be approaching a free-COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Health director-general\u00a0Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in his daily media conference on COVID-19, said\u00a0of the 277 cases, only six cases involved\u00a0Malaysian citizens, with four local transmission and two imported cases.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Senior Minister (Security Cluster)\u00a0 Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, in an interview for a documentary on MCO\u00a0with Bernama TV recently, said Malaysia\u00a0will witness major changes in the policy of employing foreign workers and to curb the entry of illegal immigrants during post COVID-19.<\/p>\n

He said that it was about time for the policy to be reviewed as foreigners were among major\u00a0contributors to the surge in\u00a0COVID-19 cases in the country as well as in several other countries,\u00a0including Singapore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0The tourism industry, he said,\u00a0was among economic sectors\u00a0adversely\u00a0affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, with many hotels forced to shut down their operations and retrench workers, leading to high unemployment rate.<\/p>\n

While the post COVID-19 economic recovery may be slow, the government policy would definitely put more emphasis on employing locals, he added.<\/p>\n

– BERNAMA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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