Discipline needed if Malaysians want to end MCO on April 14 - Health DG

CORONAVIRUS | The decision whether there is a need to further extend the government's movement control order (MCO) after April 14 depends on the people's discipline, says the Health director-general.

Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told a press conference today that the health authority needs to break the chain of Covid-19 infection in the country, and this can only be done by everyone abiding the MCO.

"It is up to us. If all of us come together as one, and we practice and embrace (the order) to stay at home, while we at the Health Ministry continue with public health activities and carrying out active case detection.

"We can increase testing and finding targeted groups, we test them and isolate them early.

"Then we can break the chain of Covid-19. So the next two weeks is up to you and me now. If we can all have social discipline, I am sure we can actually flatten the curve," he told reporters in Putrajaya.

Noor Hisham was answering a question on whether the Health Ministry foresees the need to further prolong the MCO, which has now been extended for another 14 days to April 14.

The MCO period was initially set to end tomorrow (March 31).

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