Pak Idrus's Blog

The MCO has been relax and folks could now do whatever they did before the pandemic occurred like go to the park or just jog around the neighborhood for exercise. I decided  to start jogging around the neighborhood again. So this afternoon with a walking stick I  start walking slowly like I normally did and enjoy the walk. It was indeed refreshing. Today I did not seen other people doing that like in the past. Maybe like me they may start doing it one of these days. Last week in the early morning I saw one of my friend already start to do his morning walk. He stop and we chat at a distance to avoid contact, following the Distancing SOP. It looks like this pandemic did change our norms which folks now call the New Normal, like not shaking hands when we meet friends and at the same time wear mask to protect ourselves from  getting infected. Because of the lockdown which the government call the Movement Control Order  or the MCO the country under the leadership of the ...

From the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic that hit the world in February 2020 Malaysia has put in place special measures to prevent the virus from spreading and endangering its population. The plan was called the Movement Control Order or in short MCO beginning on the 18th of March 2020. When the the Virus came into control, the MCO was canceled and replaced with the RMCO [Recovery Movement Control Order]. At the time of the MCO the people were told to stay at home and could only go out of their house to buy food. From 10th June 2020 to 31st August 2020. The MCO is being extended in a new and more relaxed manner. During the period of  the RMCO  folks are freed to move across the states borders thusnd folks are relieved and can move more freely. Likewise all businesses except for a few that are still not allowed, can operate as usual. The government has done their best to contain the spread of the Covid 19 virus.  Now its up to the people to take care of themselves, as we...

The outbreak of the virus Covid 19 starts in Wuhan, China some time in January 2020. The original source of this Virus outbreak is yet unknown. The Chinese authority took an unprecedented action by shutting down the movement of the city residents of some 11 millions. It a a complete lock-down with no one leaving and getting into the city. Immediately the Chinese authority act fast and professionally by mobilising all the experts to head to the city to help the already infested as well to stop the spread of the virus to the other part of  the country, as well to the other parts of the world. Soon the virus separate to the other parts of the world including to Malaysia. Since the middle of March 2020 the Malaysian government has introduced a Movement order or the Control Movement Order or CMO making it compulsory for the citizens to stay at home and not leave unless really necessary like getting foods or grocery. The Police and the Army was fully mobilised to enforced the CMO. The e...