Police man a roadblock along Jalan Syed Putra in Kuala Lumpur January 13, 2021. The senior defence minister said in a statement this evening that the National Security Council decided this after considering the emergence of 17 Covid-19 clusters in Kuala Lumpur over the past week. ― Picture by Choo Choy May
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — The capital city here will come under a movement control order (MCO) from Friday, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today, just a day after its perplexing omission from the partial lockdown imposed on all the Selangor districts surrounding it.
The senior defence minister said in a statement this evening that the National Security Council decided this after considering the emergence of 17 Covid-19 clusters in Kuala Lumpur over the past week.
“After examining the presentation and recommendation from the Health Ministry, the government has decided to implement a movement control order for the entirety of the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur from May 7 until May 20,” he said.
The delay would mean, however, that MCO in KL and the surrounding Selangor districts will not be synchronised.
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