PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry is within the closing levels of finalising the usual working procedures (SOPs) for Malaysia’s border reopening, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic).
The National Recovery Council (NRC) chairman mentioned the federal government shall be making the announcement quickly as soon as it has been authorized by the Cabinet.
He mentioned that the delay in reopening the nation will go away a big impact on the nation, particularly by way of the economic system.
“If we are late to open the country for a day, we will have to bear great costs.
“The faster we can reopen, the better,” he mentioned in a press convention after chairing the third NRC assembly on Tuesday (Feb 22).
Muhyiddin mentioned that regardless of the present surge of Covid-19 instances primarily as a result of Omicron variant, the healthcare system continues to be able to dealing with the scenario.
“If the Health Ministry can handle it, there should be no problem (to reopen the border),” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that the nation’s tourism sector depends closely on international guests, which contributed RM80bil in income earlier than the pandemic, therefore, reopening the border promptly is necessary.
It was beforehand reported that the NRC had really useful for the nation’s borders to reopen for quarantine-free journey by March 1.
Muhyiddin mentioned the reopening of the border was necessary to revive the nation’s economic system, particularly the enterprise and tourism sectors, and hoped that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob would conform to their proposal to reopen the nation’s borders by March 1.
On Feb 18, Ismail Sabri mentioned that the Health Ministry had been given two to a few weeks to current proposals and normal working procedures (SOP) to the Cabinet for the reopening of the nation’s borders.
