PETALING JAYA: Health Minister Dr Adham Baba today said the movement control order is legal as Covid-19 is categorised as a life-threatening microbial infection under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act.
“The health ministry would like to clarify that Covid-19 is a new pandemic that is happening across the world,” he said in a statement today. “An amendment to the First Schedule of the act to list Covid-19 as an infectious disease must be made through the authority of the minister under Section 30, Act 342.”
Liew said his research into the act showed it was “very unclear” whether the government had defined Covid-19 as an infectious disease in the schedule.
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