PUTRAJAYA: The National Security Council (NSC) is drawing up standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the green, yellow and red zones, Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.
The SOPs include movement in and out of these zones, which are accorded different colours based on the severity of Covid-19 infections.
A red zone is an area with more than 41 cases, orange zone (20-40 cases), yellow zone (1-19 cases), and green zone is without any case.
“For example, we don’t want people from red zones going into green zones. We are looking at what type of flexibility we can give,” he said during his daily briefing here.
Ismail said the government has ordered the NSC to discuss the matter with the health ministry and police to produce an SOP for these specific zones.
“So let’s wait for the SOP, which will be discussed in the nearest future.”
He said this when asked if the movement control order – enforced to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic – would be lifted or relaxed in Perlis which became a green zone with no active cases in any of its 22 townships.
Yesterday,the government announced that the MCO would be extended, for the third time, to May 12.
On a separate matter, Ismail said Putrajaya does not fix the price for food baskets donated by NGOs
He said this in response to a post on social media by an opposition MP claiming that the RM100 food basket, promised by the government, was actually worth RM35.
The food baskets are distributed to those affected by the MCO.
Ismail said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Harun has explained that the social welfare department, under her ministry’s purview, also collected aid from NGOs.
“So they can donate food aid worth RM30, RM70 and RM100. It is up to them,” he said.
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