The Health Ministry is expecting a tsunami of Covid-19 cases in the country due to the huge number of Malaysians who went overseas during the school holidays earlier this month.
Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the movement control order (MCO) being implemented by the government now was part of preparations to face the third wave.
"We carried out this MCO as a preparation for our expectations, where three weeks ago we thought there would be a third wave, or what we call a tsunami," he told a press conference in Putrajaya today.
According to him, health authorities found that many Malaysians went out of the country for holidays, including to Japan and S Korea.
This was despite the countries been among those identified as high risk for Covid-19 alongside Italy and Iran among others.
He also revealed that there was a ministry which had given approval to 8,000 of its staff to go for holidays overseas.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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