MCO 3.0: Business group states willingness to ‘bite the bullet’ for the sake of saving lives | Malay Mail

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KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 — The Federation of Malaysian Business Associations (FMBA) has expressed its support of a stricter movement control order (MCO), stressing the extremity of Covid-19 containment measures imposed by the federal government nationwide was more crucial to saving lives than making...

Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:45 PM MYTFMBA said the tightened restrictions announced for MCO 3.0 must be accompanied by financial relief programmes and the government must be accountable for such unprecedented containment measures.

“We support the government to issue stricter and more complete nationwide lockdowns to ensure we break the chain of infection.“Extreme moments like this call for extreme actions. We can rebuild our economy, our financial institutions, our social standing — but we cannot afford to lose our lives,” the coalition, which represents 262 business associations and chambers of commerce comprising 950,000 companies across all sectors, said in a statement.

However, FMBA said the tightened restrictions announced must be accompanied by financial relief programmes and the government must be accountable for such unprecedented containment measures.

 

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