Miti assures no full economic shutdown

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) has assured that there will be no total lockdown of the economic and industrial sectors if Covid-19 cases in the country were to increase significantly.

Senior Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali said the previous closure of the economic sectors had a huge impact on the economy, especially on the people, causing 826,000 to lose their jobs in the first three months of the total lockdown in 2020.

“When a person loses their job, it involves...