News about lockdown

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): It is the minister who is responsible for the undistributed food aid and not overworked Welfare Department officers, said Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh according to a Malaysiakini report today.

PUTRAJAYA (April 23): The government has ordered Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to immediately resolve the food distribution issues currently faced by certain residents in Selayang which is under an enhanced movement control order (EMCO), the Malay Mail reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 22): An Indonesian politician who has become so angry with people going against lockdown regulations in his country that she has proposed locking them in a “haunted house”, AFP reported yesterday Sragen regency head Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati has announced such a policy following the influx of people to the area under her charge after lockdowns in Jakarta and other major Javanese cities.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 21): The US debate over restrictions for fighting the coronavirus intensified on Monday, as protesters labelled mandatory lockdowns as “tyranny,” while medical workers and health experts warned that lifting them too soon risked unleashing a greater disaster, Reuters reported today.

MANILA (April 2): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned violators of COVID-19 lockdown measures that they could be shot for causing trouble, and said abuse of medical workers was a serious crime that would not be tolerated, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): Palm oil and property player Keck Seng (Malaysia) Bhd (KSM) said its hotel operations located in the US and Canada have temporarily closed, following the enforcement of citywide lockdowns.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 25): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today declared a state of national emergency as the country prepared to go into a complete lockdown at midnight for a month to stem the COVID-19 outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Regional full-service carriers’ (FSC) fare between Kuala Lumpur and London (KUL-LHR) has skyrocketed over COVID-19 and lockdown worries, the New Straits Times (NST) reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): Express Rail Link (ERL), the operator of KLIA Express and KLIA Transit services, announced today that the schedule of its train services is going to be adjusted from Friday (March 20), given the enforcement of the government's Movement Control Order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 17): All three number forecast operators in the country are temporarily closing their operations from tomorrow till end-March as the movement control order comes into force to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.