China News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, May 28 (Reporter Chen Yue) After the number of new confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in a single day broke through 8,000 for the first time on the 28th, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin issued a statement through the Prime Minister’s Office that night, announcing that it will start from June From 1st to June 14th, a comprehensive movement control order was implemented, and the city was completely "closed" for two weeks.
The statement announced that under the comprehensive action control order, only "essential" economic and social institutions are allowed to continue to operate.
Subsequently, the Malaysian government will decide whether to partially liberalize economic activities depending on the effect of the comprehensive movement control order; if the epidemic is further controlled, the current control measures will be restored to allow most economic activities to continue.
The Ministry of Health of Malaysia reported earlier that day that as of 12 noon on the 28th, there were 8,290 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the country in the past 24 hours, setting a record for the highest number of new confirmed cases in a single day in Malaysia since the epidemic.
Previously, the country’s new confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 6000 for the first time on the 19th and 7000 for the first time on the 25th.
Within 10 days from the 19th to the 28th, a total of approximately 70,000 newly confirmed cases have been confirmed in Malaysia.
As of now, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Malaysia has reached 549,000.
Muhyiddin said in the statement that the occupancy rate of intensive care units in Malaysia has reached the "limit", and he hopes that the chain of transmission of the virus can be blocked through a comprehensive movement control order and the pressure on medical resources can be alleviated.
Prior to this, in the face of the heat of the epidemic, the Malaysian government restarted the national movement control order on the 12th of this month, and further tightened the epidemic prevention measures on the 25th.
At that time, the Malaysian society also called for a comprehensive "closure of the city". The Minister of Defense Ismail Sabri Jacobs, who is in charge of epidemic control measures, said at the time that considering the balance between epidemic prevention and economic and people's livelihood, the final decision was only to tighten. Anti-epidemic measures rather than complete "closure of the city."
Just before Muhyiddin’s announcement, Ismail had hinted on social media that the government had to take “not easy but the best way” to control the epidemic.
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