The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) has assured that there will be no total lockdown of the economic and industrial sectors if Covid-19 cases in the country were to increase significantly.

Senior Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali said the previous closure of the economic sectors had a huge impact on the economy, especially on the people, causing 826,000 to lose their jobs in the first three months of the total lockdown in 2020.

“When a person loses their job, it involves...