Covid-19: Please stay put, movement control order enforced to break chain of infection, says PM
Wednesday, 18 Mar 2020 08:35 PM MYTA near-empty LRT coach is seen departing the KL Sentral station March 18, 2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — In his plea to the nation to stay put during the movement control order, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin explained that the shutdown was enforced to break the chain of Covid-19 infections. He explained that it would be easier to isolate those with the Covid-19 virus, which has an incubation period of 14 days, if everyone adheres to the restriction order and stays at home. “Why? We want to break the chain of infection.
“So that the number of people infected during this Covid-19 outbreak can be reduced,” he said during a special address on national television tonight.
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