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Notably, the country is continuing its trend of double digits in daily infections for 12th consecutive days.

In a statement, Mohamed Azmin said this was decided in the National Security Council meeting today, which discussed the recommendations of the Economic Action Council following the latter's own meeting yesterday.

The duo were jointly charged with 13 others.

The unit is Parkson (Cambodia) Co Ltd (PCCO), which is wholly-owned by Parkson’s 67.96%-owned subsidiary, Parkson Retail Asia Ltd (PRA).

For the vast majority of bottom 40% Malaysian households living on less than RM4,360 a month, the prolonged shutdown of businesses could mean rising poverty and hunger. In anticipation of the economic distress, the government has responded promptly by announcing a RM250 billion economic stimulus package.

Active cases in the country continued to fall, this time to 1,764 — the lowest since March 27, with the patients isolated and given treatment.

The 16 new cases in the capital were part of the total 38 reported yesterday.

This brings the total number of cases in Malaysia to 5,742 cases, while the number of active cases continue to drop to 1,882 — the lowest level in four weeks.

The number of patients discharged for the day was 121. The country has been reporting a higher number of recoveries compared to new cases since the start of the third phase of the movement control order on April 15.

Based on the MoH’s statistics, most of the active cases were in the Lembah Pantai district, where there were 210 active cases and 670 cumulative infections.