PETALING JAYA, June 27 — Phase One of Movement Control under the National Recovery Plan (PPN), which is scheduled to end tomorrow, will be extended, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
He said phase one has to be extended as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country has not dipped below the threshold value of 4,000 required to move to the next phase.
“Now they say the Movement Control Order (MCO) is about to end. I want to say that from now on we don’t call it MCO, but we say we are in a particular phase and now we are in phase one (of PPN) until July, maybe middle of the month or so.
“It is wrong to say June 28 is the end of the MCO.
“I want to say we are still in the first phase of PPN, and this will continue until the threshold value of below 4,000 cases is reached, cases in the intensive care unit have dropped from the critical level and vaccinations have increased,” he told reporters after visiting the vaccination centre at the Sunway Pyramid Convention here today.
Muhyiddin added that phase one was to test the country’s resilience so that it could go through all the PPN phases smoothly.
