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To provide a much needed boost to the property sector in light of the current downturn amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rehda vice-president and Selangor Branch chairman Zulkifly Garib: For properties, location is a matter of choice. For example, there are places where the Bumiputeras will not choose to live and also places where non-Bumiputeras will not go to. It is tricky to find a balance.

Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association (Rehda) president Datuk Soam Heng Choon: Interested developers could form a loose coalition with ministries such as the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Malaysia and Ministry of Housing and Local Government, as well as perhaps Rehda in coming up with promotional efforts. 

Rehda Malaysia president Datuk Soam Heng Choon: If you freeze new launches, it won't help the situation. The overhang units will remain overhang units.

Azrul Mohd Khalib, the executive director of the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy: This could result in Malaysia lurching from this MCO to another one a few months later.

The NSC said that the centres “must ensure best practices in terms of social distancing and place one-metre markers on the floor, especially in dining and sleeping areas”. All centre staff must also wear masks, supply hand sanitisers and anyone entering the area must have their temperatures recorded. Anyone with a temperature of 37.5 degrees celsius and above will not be allowed to enter.

Hanks jokingly suggested that vaccine should be called “Hank-ccine”.

The four who tested positive for the infection are a food trader, two fishmongers and a Petaling Jaya City Council cleaner.

Defined as units that have received their Certificate of Completion and Compliance but remained unsold for more than nine months after launch, the high number of overhang units has dampened the property sector in Malaysia in recent years.

In Ipoh, Syeun Hotel announced to its 155 staff in a notice that it will cease operations on May 31.