The CMCO may end earlier - Ismail Sabri

The Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) order may be terminated sooner if all parties take responsibility by complying with the standard operating procedure (SOP).

Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said this was due to high self-control practices to ensure that the COVID-19 infection chain could be broken.

"The government would like to express our thanks and congratulations to the public for their self-control in complying with the SOP and hope it can continue throughout the year to ensure the COVID-19 infection chain is broken.

"If everyone is able to obey this SOP and everyone practises self-control, I believe the CMCO may be able to be ended sooner than we expect," he said at a press conference here on Tuesday.

He said a report prepared by the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) showed that there was an increase in movement across the country but everything went well.

"Expectations (by some quarters) that business premises would be crowded and there is no SOP compliance such as social distancing, turned out to be untrue.

"The results of the monitoring report show that the business premises are adopting the prescribed SOP.

"Surveys on public transport such as Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) have also seen consumers practising social distancing besides wearing nose and mouth masks," he said.