Syncing up country, Putrajaya extends movement control order for first batch of states to Feb 4

KUALA LUMPUR — The movement control order (MCO) will be extended to Feb 4 for the states and all federal territories first locked down this month, Senior Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced on Thursday (Jan 21).

The extension meant the MCO will expire in all states except Sarawak on the same date. Sarawak is under the conditional MCO.

The states and federal territories affected are Selangor, Melaka, Penang, Johor, Sabah, Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan.

“For now, we will extend these states till February 4 first to standardise the date with other states that also started to observe MCO recently, so that if we decide to further extend in future it will be easier to synchronise.

“This decision was made to further extend as the 14 days observation by the Ministry of Health from Jan 7 to 20 showed positive Covid-19 infections continue to soar within the local community. “In Selangor particularly, earlier we thought cases were high among foreigners, but actually cases within the local community are soaring high,” he said in his daily security briefing this evening. MALAY MAIL