Counselling centres should be allowed to operate with strict SOPs during the movement control order (MCO) amid concerns over the high suicide rate recently, said Seputeh MP Teresa Kok.

“While the government is trying to reduce the infectivity of Covid-19 and prevent more people from contracting Covid by imposing MCO and enhanced MCO in Selangor and various states in Malaysia, it is high time the government look seriously into the current hikes in mental illnesses and suicide rates in an urgent manner.

“It is high time the government allows more counselling centres to...