MALAYSIA BANS ENTRY OF COUNTRIES WITH OVER 150,000 CORONAVIRUS CASES
Malaysia Government has said it will deny the entry of people from countries that have reported over 150,000 cases of coronavirus into its country.
Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob disclosed this on Thursday, September 3, saying, "We will add more countries deemed high-risk during a press conference, their citizens will be barred."
The ban, which takes effect on Monday, also covers the United States and Britain, Malaysia’s former colonizer.
The development comes after the Malaysia Government told long-term or work visa holders from India, Indonesia and the Philippines that they would be denied entry.
According to official statistics collated by Johns Hopkins University, 23 countries have recorded over 150,000 cases of the virus.
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Germany and Italy among others have recorded a very high number of cases since the emergence of the infection.
Germany and Italy, as on September 3, have recorded 244, 855 and 270, 189 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with death tolls of 9,313 and 35,491 respectively, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Malaysia Government had imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 18; a ban on all tourist arrivals was also extended until the end of the year.
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The lockdown was lifted on May 4 as a result of an economic meltdown when the second-quarter GDP of the country dropped by over 17 per cent, according to official data released in mid-August.
Tourism accounts to 10 to 15 per cent of Malaysia’s GDP, while 3 to 5 million foreigners work in Malaysia, including hundreds of thousands of Indians, Indonesians and Filipinos.
Malaysia has recorded no fewer than 9,374 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 9,100 recoveries, and 128 deaths, according to the ministry of health
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