KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's move to cut short its lockdown period by more than week and allow nearly all economic activity to resume on Monday is stirring a worrisome debate in the country.
The prospect of things going wrong appeared high over the weekend when daily Covid-19 infection numbers, which had been falling over a long stretch, snapped with the country posting triple digit cases. A recent report by Barclays stated that Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding suburbs and towns, often referred to as the Klang Valley, was by far the hardest hit city in terms of economic loss in Asia as a result of the lockdown measures.
The PN coalition has a razor-thin majority in the 222-member Parliament, leaving Mr Muhyiddin vulnerable when the Lower House convenes for its much-anticipated sitting in the third week of May.
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