PUTRAJAYA: The National Recovery Council has recommended that talks be held to study, plan and propose measures for the immediate and safe reopening of the country’s borders.
Council chairman Muhyiddin Yassin said the reopening of international borders was one of the important measures that would support the country’s recovery process.
Muhyiddin said the council recommended that a committee be formed between the ministries involved to propose measures to reopen the country’s borders, namely “when and how it can be opened in stages”.
“Without proper plans, closure of the borders for an undisclosed period will have an effect on whether the country’s recovery process is fast or slow,” he told a media conference after chairing a council meeting here today.
Muhyiddin said health minister Khairy Jamaluddin had given a briefing on the infection trend of the Omicron variant, as well as initiatives, such as tighter border controls, that are being implemented to ensure the Omicron transmission does not adversely affect the country.
The council had also recommended that the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) make preliminary plans for the annual occurrence of floods, with pre-flood preparations and post-flood recovery measures.
It was also proposed that Nadma, the Meteorological Department and the Ministry of Environment and Water be more proactive in looking at the use of new technologies to tackle the issue of environmental disasters.
The council also recommended that the agriculture ministry and the human resources ministry should refine measures to tackle the acute shortage of manpower in deep-sea fishing, as the problem had caused a reduction in the number of fish landings and disrupted the supply of fish in the market. - FMT
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