CORONAVIRUS | Businesses operating in Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) premises will be exempted from paying rent for one month, Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa has announced.
This is in light with the two-week movement control order being implemented by the federal government, which came into effect yesterday (March 18) to slow the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus.
Aside from the rent, Annuar (photo, above), who is also Ketereh MP, announced that 500 daily-wage earners with DBKL will receive full pay even if they are unable to work throughout the 14-day order period.
“On the 806 people being quarantined at the Sri Petaling mosque in Kuala Lumpur, their food and drinks will be sponsored with funding of up to RM300,000,” the minister announced on RTM earlier yesterday.
Some 16,000 people, up to 14,500 of them Malaysians, had participated in a religious tabligh gathering at the mosque for several days beginning Feb 27. The event was later linked to a massive cluster of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia and in other countries in the region, including Cambodia and Brunei.
To date, Malaysia has recorded 790 coronavirus cases, of which some 513 were traced to the tabligh gathering in Sri Petaling.
Of the 790 cases, however, 60 patients have recovered. - Mkini
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