KUANTAN: Pahang will not adopt the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) on Monday.It will wait for the State Security Council Committee to decide at its meeting on Friday.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail said the state government has to study and fine-tune the guidelines to ensure it was suitable with the current needs to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak in Pahang.
On May 1 Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that the CMCO would enable all economic and social activities to resume from May 4, under certain conditions and adherence to Standard Operating Procedures.
"The state government supports the announcement by Prime Minister on the CMCO starting May 4. However, we have to look into the preparedness based on the situation in Pahang, .... Pahang has a new cluster, so special focus has to be made on efforts to tackle it.
"It (CMCO) will be discussed in detail during the weekly State Security Council Committee meeting on Friday evening. The current Movement Control Order requirements and guidelines in Pahang would be continued, pending a decision by the committee on Friday," he said in a statement today.
Wan Rosdy said the state government was in the midst of fine-tuning the implementations of the CMCO to ensure there will were no new Covid-19 outbreak when more sectors are open for business.
On Pahang, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced that six Covid-19 cases have been detected in a new cluster at a Tahfiz school in Lanchang, Temerloh.
Pahang has to date recorded 305 Covid-19 cases with six yellow zones, namely Kuantan, Bentong, Bera, Raub, Temerloh and Jerantut.
Several states including Sarawak, Kedah, Negri Sembilan and Sabah had previously announced its decision not to implement the CMCO until it had studied the implications it would have on the respective state.