KUALA LUMPUR - It was after 8pm last Monday (March 30) when sales promoter Amy Wong found out her apartment at One City Tower would be under an Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) beginning midnight.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KUALA LUMPUR - It was after 8pm last Monday when sales promoter Amy Wong found out her apartment at One City Tower would be under an enhanced movement control order beginning midnight.
Thankfully, they have been able to ask her aunt to drop off supplies and food at her home in the usually bustling but now eerily quiet commercial district of Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur, instead of having to rely on government rations of rice, canned food and eggs. Whether broadening the Emco zones, or even calling an outright emergency, becomes necessary is still touch and go.
JP Morgan had further estimated in its March 23 report that infections would peak in mid-April at 6,300, a figure Malaysia will miss unless there is a sudden increase. But the southern neighbour has had a far higher rate of testing at over 7,000 per million compared with Malaysia's figure of about 1,600 so far.
He said Malaysians should start worrying if the projected need for hospital beds, intensive care and ventilators exceed capacity.
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