“No matter how many precautions we take, even if one person lets it slip, it can harm not only our children but other children too,” says a parent.

Associate Professor Dr Rohaiza Rokis, from the Sociology and Antropology Department, International Islamic University Malaysia, said WFH is an ideal concept of living.

In a joint statement, the presidents and chairmen of the chambers of commerce and associations said they share the conviction that it is critical for business operations to be resumed nationwide while encouraging all state governments to follow the federal government’s decision and restart the economy, given the close interlinking of supply chains between states.

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State Housing and Local Government Committee chairman Ayub Jamil said 8,033 verbal warnings, 6,892 written notices and 158 compounds were also issued.

He said the state was prepared to restart the economic sector under the CMCO but has chosen to implement the Penang Gradual Recovery Strategy (PGRS) instead of doing it "suddenly".

He said the ministry had received complaints from non-Muslims that some of these premises were operating at night in the city centre.

"MMA believes that labs in the country may not be able to cope with the high volume of samples taken from workers to test for Covid-19 within a short time frame. It may also not be affordable for many businesses; many of which have suffered losses due to the temporary halt in operations under the Movement Control Order (MCO)."

Meanwhile, 83 patients were discharged today, bringing total recoveries in the country to 4,567.

“However, there is an administrative restriction there. Maybe we control it with barbed wires and such but we have not declared those areas as EMCO.”