CORONAVIRUS | The International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) website has crashed this morning after opening applications for movement control order (MCO) exemptions for certain non-essential services.

In view of this, it said the application system would be shut down from 2pm to 4pm today for "reconfiguration".

In a statement today, Miti said there were more than 176,000 visitors to its website between 9am and 11am when the applications were open...