Businesses resigned to new Kuala Lumpur lockdown
KUALA LUMPUR - As Malaysia’s capital city and its surrounding area slip back into lockdown, the return to movement restrictions has come as little surprise to many business owners.
Expectations of a so-called conditional movement restriction order (CMCO) for the capital, the government seat of Putrajaya and Selangor, the highly populated state that circles them, have been rising in recent weeks after the daily number of COVID-19 infections began to grow in mid-September.
The CMCO follows other similar targeted lockdowns in the northern state of Kedah last month and last week in the port city of Klang in Selangor, and comes in tandem with one also being enforced in Sabah in East Malaysia. The latest round CMCOs are expected to last two weeks.
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