CORONAVIRUS | The authorities seek to limit excuses to flout the movement control order (MCO) if the e-bazaar is implemented during the upcoming Ramadan, said Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
The defence minister said the cabinet will discuss the competing suggestions between the e-bazaar involving ordering and delivery, and e-bazaar concept of order and pick up at the Ramadan bazaar itself.
He said the cabinet is concerned there may be people who might use the excuse of picking up an order from a Ramadan bazaar to the police. This might lead to situations where others may use that excuse merely to violate MCO.
“There are suggestions for the e-bazaar to involve order and delivery. There are views (for the e-bazaar) to involve order and pick up at the Ramadan bazaar (but) this may lead to mass movement (of people).
“Even if we place an order vie e-bazaar, if it involves physically picking up (the food) at a Ramadan bazaar, there would be crowding.
“The idea is not to give an excuse to people to go out (and flout the MCO). If there is an avenue to pick up the item (ordered from e-bazaar), the police would face difficulty as they (people) will give an excuse that they have placed an order so they need to go out and collect the placed order.
“We hope to reduce this kind of excuse to go out (during the MCO). We will discuss at the cabinet,” Ismail Sabri said.
(More to follow) - Mkini
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