The Health Ministry has been given two to three weeks to present to the cabinet proposals and standard operating procedures (SOP) for the reopening of the country’s borders.

Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said a decision on whether to open the borders must be looked into carefully as the government has been receiving a lot of feedback on the matter, including public views for more intervention to be done by the government, especially with regard to SOP and so on due to concerns on Covid-19 transmission...