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KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): The government is mulling to allow some of the non-essential businesses, especially those from manufacturing and services sectors, in green zones and areas with zero death cases to resume operations, Sinchew Daily reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): Businesses, even some essential ones are finding it difficult to sustain amid the sluggish economy which is compounded by the COVID-19 virus outbreak and the ensuing Movement Control Order (MCO) imposed by the government.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): Sarawak’s top cop Datuk Aidi Ismail (pictured) has tested positive for the COVID-19 and has been hospitalised, reported Malaysiakini today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): The government has enforced the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) at the Selangor Mansion and Malayan Mansion flats in Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur after 15 positive cases of COVID-19 were recorded at the two buildings on April 7, 2020.

PETALING JAYA (April 8): The Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association Malaysia (Rehda) wants the government to enact an all-encompassing force majeure exemption bill or a COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Bill to lawfully protect business owners in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): A traveller who has been quarantined at a hotel here has made public his disgust at the “dilapidated conditions and unsanitary facilities”.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): Sepang and Kota Samarahan have been added into the red zone areas, as the number of Covid-19 confirmed cases there breached 40, according to the Ministry of Health.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): The Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) has clarified that its member hotels taking part in the COVID-19 quarantine initiative are well aware of and have agreed to the government’s RM150 room rate subsidy for lending their spaces out to be used as quarantine centres.

PETALING JAYA (April 8): State governments should consider a moratorium on quit rent and assessment for the second half of 2020 as this is one of the quickest ways to reduce business costs in light of the COVID-19 outbreak and Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia, says Knight Frank Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, (April  8): Some 30 to 40 per cent of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are at risk of being laid off because they are not protected by the stimulus measures announced to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, says the country’s apex labour union group.