PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is scheduled to make a special address on the MCO at 6pm Monday (Jan 11).
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The address is expected to inform the country on the latest measures to be imposed by the government following the recent spike of Covid-19 cases.
The address will be shown live on Malaysian television channels RTM, BernamaTV, TV3 and Astro Awani.
It will also be broadcast live on Muhyiddin’s official Facebook page.
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Malaysia has recorded more than 135,000 cases of Covid-19 so far, with more than 2,000 daily cases recorded in the past six days.
It also breached the 3,000 daily cases mark on Jan 7 for the first time.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has warned that the number of daily Covid-19 cases could reach 8,000 a day in March if the infectivity rate – known as the R-naught (R0) – stayed at 1.2.-The Star