JOHOR BAHRU: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob confirmed that the nation’s borders will be reopened soon.
This will allow Keluarga Malaysia (The Malaysian Family) members who haven’t met one another for a while to be collectively throughout Hari Raya Aidilfitri in May.
To allow journey to and from Malaysia with Brunei and Thailand, the federal government was within the technique of implementing the land Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) with these two international locations, he stated when launching the primary collection of Jelajah Aspirasi Keluarga Malaysia (AKM) at Dataran Angsana right here on Saturday (March 5).
He stated this could add to the prevailing VTL facility with Singapore and the one nonetheless beneath planning with Indonesia.
“To rejuvenate financial actions and tourism, particularly in Johor, the federal authorities carried out the air and land VTL with Singapore on Jan 21 this yr to facilitate the reunion of households separated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I used to be instructed that 200,000 Malaysians commute between Singapore and Johor. They not must endure obligatory quarantine at residence after taking two well being screening assessments, as soon as when leaving Singapore and once more on arrival in Malaysia,” he stated.
The media in the present day reported Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin as saying the Prime Minister was anticipated to announce subsequent week the date for reopening the nation’s borders.
Khairy stated the Cabinet reached an settlement on the reopening of borders at its assembly on Friday (March 4).
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri, who visited the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation sales space along side Jelajah AKM, carried out the flag-off for Malaysia Techlympics 2022.
This initiative is geared toward inculcating a tradition of modern concepts in keeping with Malaysia’s agenda to be a high-technology nation, as represented by the Ministry’s tagline of “Merakyatkan Sains, Menginsankan Teknologi”.
Themed Connect, Compete, Celebrate, Malaysia Techlympics 2022 runs from March till November, that includes 25 competitions beneath 5 main classes overlaying engineering, computing and micro-computers, nano, Internet of Things, robotics, drones, science, arithmetic, artistic designing and animation, in addition to three dimensional printing and improvement.
The Ministry stated in a press release in the present day that on the finish of Malaysia Techlympics, at the least 2,000 concepts or world-class prototypes which might be modern, artistic and futuristic will be gathered, in keeping with the agenda to drive the nation in direction of a high-technology nation by 2030. – Bernama