MP SPEAKS | Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is expected to announce a new targeted movement control order (MCO) that will adversely impact our recession-hit economy, following the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government’s failure to contain the worsening Covid-19 situation.

As of noon Jan 9, a total of 542 people were reported to have died with a total of 133,559 Covid-19 infections.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said he feared that the worst is yet to come, predicting 8,000 infections daily at the earliest in March or the latest by May.

Instead of paying full attention to the suffering of the people caused by the worsening Covid-19 situation and the floods in the East Coast, Muhyiddin is now in...