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ATM and PDRM staff seen driving a road blockage along the Kota Samarahan Expressway. – Stock photo
KUCHING: Sarawak has decided to follow the federal ruling by allowing four members of the same family to ride in a vehicle during the state’s Movement Control Order (MCO) period with immediate effect, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas .
Uggah, who is also chairman of the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) in a statement today, said that since the ruling has been issued into law, Sarawak will comply accordingly.
“The state’s position is that since this has been published as the law, Sarawak will comply accordingly.”
“In other words, we now allow four people (family members from the same household) to travel in one vehicle (during the MCO period),” he said.
The ruling was announced yesterday by Chief Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, allowing a maximum of four members of the same family to travel in a private vehicle during the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) period. .
According to Ismail Sabri, it was allowed because the problem of social distancing is not occurring in a home where family members eat and sleep together.
At the same time, he emphasized that all four in the same vehicle must be from the same family and household only, while still complying with CMCO’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
“Then, the government decided to allow private vehicles to travel together with a maximum of four family members. But they must come from the same family, from the same home, “he said.
While Sarawak follows the decision of four per car, however, he does not follow Putrajaya in the implementation of the CMCO.
According to Uggah on Saturday, SDMC would need to study the implications of reopening economic activities, which sectors to open, when and to what extent they will be allowed to open before implementing CMCO.
As such, companies and the various economic sectors that cannot operate during the previous phase four MCO (MCO4) in the state will remain closed until the study is completed, he added.
Kedah, Penang, Selangor, Pahang, Kelantan, Negeri Sembilan and Sabah are also not implementing the CMCO as of today.
Ismail Sabri at a press conference today said that the SOPs and regulations in the previous MCO4 are now null and void with the start of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) or phase five of the MCO (MCO5) .
Therefore, he said, all parties must comply with the regulations stipulated under MCO5.
“If some people still want to follow the regulations under MCO4, then they are wrong, as it has been replaced by MCO5.
“Now, all states are subject to MCO5 and I hope that (in the states) they will realize this and adhere to MCO5,” he said at a press conference on the latest development of the MCO in Putrajaya today.
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