They feel that the areas placed under the current conditional MCO are too vast covering areas with little or no cases, thus demotivating economic activities that are much needed now to stimulate the market.
“The control should be more specific, limited to areas affected instead of by state or district level to strike a balance between safeguarding lives and livelihoods. As footfall at malls and retail spaces were still badly affected, Tay said such targeted control would at least allow some economic activities in unaffected areas to go on.
Koong Lin Loong, who is the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia committee chairman for small-medium enterprise , agreed, saying the conditional MCO had affected businesses although they were allowed to operate. While the market needed consumers to spend, Koong said the government must instil confidence among the people with targeted enhanced MCO at specific red zones instead of a wider district movement restriction.