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"It is not impossible to succeed in stopping [Covid-19] without a vaccine, but of course having a vaccine would be better.”

Of the 19 new cases, six were imported, while the remaining 13 cases were locally transmitted. Of the local transmissions, 11 cases involved Malaysians, while two cases involved foreigners.

Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) said it had published its base guidelines on May 1 to guide hotels into the new norm of hotel operations.

Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin: “If we can all be disciplined, I believe that our control of the virus will continue and we can enter the normalisation phase after Aug 31 until a vaccine for Covid-19 has been found." 

With more relaxed conditions...

"The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, global lockdowns and advice against social gatherings have all contributed to making it operationally unsustainable for us."

He said this was as the Health Ministry was nearly done with Covid-19 screenings for detained migrant workers as well as personnel in charge at four immigration depots at Bukit Jalil, Semenyih, Sepang and Putrajaya.

At his daily briefing, Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced that today’s new cases brought the total number of cases in Malaysia to 8,303. Active cases stood at 1,551.

Since last month, Malaysian hotels have started to receive guests and forward bookings look promising, a recent survey by the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) reveals.

Some of these hotels were long established, yet stood little chance against the ravages of the coronavirus, whose impact on the tourism sector has been particularly devastating.