MCO: Deputy minister, exco member to be charged and 9 news from yesterday

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. Deputy Health Minister Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali and Perak executive councillor Razman Zakaria are expected to face charges today for allegedly breaching the movement control order (MCO, photo above), one of which was attending a lunch event at Hospital Kuala Kangsar on April 19.

2. Amid complaints from opposition MPs, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Mohd Harun denied that food parcels were only delivered to certain parliamentary constituencies but not others,

3. MPs may need to undergo temperature screening and Covid-19 tests before being allowed to attend the forthcoming parliamentary sitting on May 18.

4. The Social Security Organisation (Socso) has issued guidelines for providing free Covid-19 testing for workers returning to work during the movement control order period.

5. Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has appealed for calm amid a surge of hate speech against the Rohingya community in Malaysia, promising a police investigation of the allegations circulating on social media.

6. Suspended PKR leader Dr Afif Bahardin denied trying to persuade Batu MP P Prabakaran to defect from PKR to Gerakan.

7. The Foreign Spouses Support Group has urged the government to allow the foreign spouses of Malaysian citizens to re-enter Malaysia, even if they don’t have a long-term social visit pass.

8. The government has allowed 1,128 university students who have been stuck in their campus dormitories since the movement control order began to return home.

9. Many hotels are facing the prospect of closure or downsizing, despite government subsidies aimed at helping businesses stay afloat.

10. Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Nancy Shukri has reportedly acknowledged that the musicians are facing hardship, after being criticised of being “clueless” of their plight.