PUTRAJAYA: The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will continue taking appropriate measure to achieve a balance between protecting the lives and livelihoods of the people affected by COVID-19, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
He said Malaysia was not spared from COVID-19 as the country struggled to cope and strive the negative impact of the pandemic on the safety and wellbeing of the people, as well as the economy.
“The partial shutdown of economic activities has brought about serious impacts which caused many workers to suffer job losses due to workplace closure, traders to close shop and supply of essential goods to be affected.
“Under the caring PN government with me as the Prime Minister, we tried to do our level best to revive the economy and put our people back in the job market,” he said in his speech during a visit to the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry (KPDNHEP) Enforcement Command Centre here today.
Present was KPDNHEP Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi.
Muhyiddin said the pandemic also had a huge impact on the lives of the people, including the way they work, study and do business.
“The pandemic made us realise that in order to move forward, we have to break away from normal life by introducing various effective measures to cushion the impacts of the pandemic on the people and the country’s economy.
“No more business as usual. Now is the time to generate new ideas and to become more innovative,” he said.
Muhyiddin said right from the beginning, the government had taken the 6R approach namely Resolve, Resilient, Restart, Recover, Revitalise and Reform in achieving a balance between ensuring the survival of the people and economic recovery of the country.
Right now, he said Malaysia is in the Revitalise phase, which is to revitalise the country’s economy.
The Prime Minister said an important aspect of the country's economic recovery was the successful implementation of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme, which has now entered its second phase.
He said all plans for the country’s vaccination programme were now running smoothly, to achieve the target of ensuring that at least 80 per cent of Malaysia's adult population, or the equivalent of 26.5 million individuals, received the vaccine, free of charge, by February 2022.
“This step is important to establish group protection or herd immunity. Therefore, with more and more people in Malaysia getting vaccinated, I am confident that we will finally be able to deal with this pandemic effectively,” he said.
Muhyiddin said various stimulus packages had been introduced by the government to revive the country’s economy, including the Strategic Programme to Empower the People and the Economy (PEMERKASA), worth RM20 billion.
This initiative is a continuation of other economic recovery plans which have been introduced, such as the Prihatin Rakyat Economic Stimulus Package (PRIHATIN), National Economic Recovery Plan (PENJANA), Additional Prihatin SME Economic Stimulus Package (Prihatin SME Plus), Prihatin Supplementary Initiative Package (Kita Prihatin) and Malaysian Economic and Rakyat Protection Assistance Package (PERMAI).
The government has also allocated RM322.5 billion as the national 2021 Budget, which is the largest in the country's history, he said.
“As a result, our country is on the right track to revitalise the economy, driven by economic sectors and business activities, of which almost all have been allowed to resume operations,” he said.
Muhyiddin said one of the methods to accelerate economic recovery was by using new technology.
“This pandemic shows the importance of improving and strengthening our digital technology and infrastructure, to facilitate work management.
“It has also created a sense of urgency of the importance of the digital entry agenda, to enable millions of people to do jobs, run businesses, learn and connect digitally,” he said.
He also said that through the MyDigital plan and the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint, among the targets, were to drive the digital transformation of the public sector and this included efforts to produce 100 per cent digitally literate civil servants and 80 per cent online government services right from the beginning to the end, by 2025.
Muhyiddin said the government had also allocated RM21 billion for the next five years to implement the National Digital Network Plan (JENDELA), which would serve as a platform to achieve these aspirations by accelerating the country's digital connectivity through the spread of mobile, fibre and wireless access, as well as paving the way for 5G spectrum.
At the same time, he said the country’s economic recovery agenda would continue, and the government had set 10 important foundations to determine the nation’s future direction.
The foundations include the core of economic recovery; boosting economic growth; education; health sector reform; Bumiputera agenda; food security; integrity; security and public order; unity and digitalisation of Malaysia.
For that purpose, he said the Shared Prosperity Vision 2030 (WKB2030) has been placed as the axis of economic policies aimed to ensure that Malaysians achieve a decent standard of living by 2030.
Muhyiddin also said that the Bank Negara Malaysia has recently projected that the country’s economy will grow in the range of 6.0 to 7.5 per cent this year.
“The stable domestic activity recovery, coupled with increased external demand, is the fundamental factor in driving such optimism,” he said.
-- BERNAMA
Bernama
Fri Apr 23 2021
Muhyiddin said right from the beginning, the government had taken the 6R approach, Resolve, Resilient, Restart, Recover, Revitalise and Reform in achieving a balance between ensuring the survival of the people and economic recovery of the country.
Gitar milik George Harrison dijangka cecah RM3.38 juta dalam lelongan
Gitar Futurama berkenaan dibeli di sebuah kedai alat muzik di Liverpool dan dimain oleh Harrison pada awal tahun 1960-an.
Lebih 800 maut akibat wabak mpox di Afrika
Sebanyak 34,297 kes direkodkan di seluruh benua itu sejak Januari lalu, termasuk 38 kes di Ghana.
AWANI Pagi: Ada apa dengan cinta ekspres?
7.30 pagi Sabtu bersama Dr. Norsafatul Aznin A.Razak, Pensyarah Kanan Jabatan Psikologi Pendidikan dan Kaunseling, Fakulti Pendidikan, Universiti Malaya dan Amni Sahira Muhammad Azam, Kaunselor Pelatih, Fakulti Pendidikan, Universiti Malaya membincangkan mengenai isu hubungan khususnya dalam soal memperjudikan hubungan dengan cinta ekspres.
Banjir Bosnia: Tiada rakyat Malaysia terkesan, Wisma Putra terus pantau rapat keadaan semasa
Setakat ini, tiada rakyat Malaysia dilaporkan terlibat atau terkesan dalam bencana alam tersebut.
19 terkorban akibat banjir, tanah runtuh di Bosnia
Sebahagian besar bandar dan kawasan pedalaman terputus hubungan akibat jalan raya yang ditenggelami air banjir.
Lelaki maut kereta terbabas langgar pokok di Manjung
Mangsa disahkan maut di lokasi oleh pihak Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia.
Durian segar Malaysia di China habis dijual tidak sampai 24 jam
Tidak sampai 24 jam, hampir 40 tan durian segar pertama Malaysia ke China yang dipasarkan pada 26 Ogos lepas di outlet peruncitan terpilih di enam wilayah negara Tembok Besar itu habis terjual.
Keldai akaun ditahan sebabkan kerugian hampir RM60,000
Polis menahan lelaki berumur 58 tahun dipercayai keldai akaun kepada sindiket penipuan yang menawarkan kerja sambilan tidak wujud secara dalam talian sehingga menyebabkan mangsa kerugian RM59,569 baru-baru ini.
Lebih 200 maut akibat taufan Helene di AS
Seramai 200 orang disahkan maut sehingga Jumaat selepas Taufan Helene melanda beberapa negeri di tenggara Amerika Syarikat (AS), menjadikannya ribut paling membahayakan kedua yang melanda AS dalam lebih setengah abad.
Taiwan laksana operasi pembersihan selepas taufan Krathon
Taiwan sedang giat membersihkan kerosakan akibat banjir dan angin kencang selepas Taufan Krathon melanda bandar pelabuhan utama, sementara penduduk di sebahagian besar kawasan lain di pulau itu kembali bekerja dan pasaran kewangan dibuka semula.
Muhyiddin gagal dapat pasport bercuti ke Uzbekistan, sambut ulang tahun perkahwinan
Muhyiddin gagal mendapatkan pasport antarabangsanya buat sementara untuk bercuti dan menyambut ulang tahun perkahwinan di Uzbekistan.
'Beri kami masa, Bersatu akan bangkit' - Wan Ahmad Fayhsal
Wan Ahmad Fayhsal berkata beliau optimis bahawa kepimpinan sedia ada akan mampu menangani cabaran tersebut.
MoU peruntukan: Pembangkang kekal tolak, tidak kemuka cadangan baharu - Muhyiddin
PN tidak akan mengemukakan sebarang cadangan baharu berkaitan draf MoU mengenai peruntukan untuk Ahli Parlimen Pembangkang.
Dua anak Mahathir sudah isytihar harta kepada SPRM - Azam Baki
SPRM mengesahkan telah menerima pengisytiharan harta daripada dua anak bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Kenyataan Muhyiddin gambarkan Guan Eng salah guna kuasa dalam kes cukai Yayasan Albukhary - Peguam
Kenyataan Muhyiddin dikatakan berunsur fitnah dan mencemarkan reputasi Lim Guan Eng apabila menggambarkannya telah menyalahgunakan kuasa.
Salah guna kuasa: Mahkamah Rayuan tolak permohonan Muhyiddin semak keputusan
Keputusan itu dibuat panel lima hakim Mahkamah Rayuan dipengerusikan Datuk Azizah Nawawi.
Kes salah guna kuasa: Pemimpin PN hadir beri sokongan kepada Muhyiddin
Muhyiddin tiba di Istana Kehakiman Putrajaya pada jam 9 pagi menaiki Toyota Vellfire hitam diiringi ahli keluarga yang lain.
Keputusan semakan Muhyiddin lepas bebas hari ini
Panel lima hakim dipengerusikan Datuk Azizah Nawawi dijangka memutuskan perkara terbabit pada jam 9 pagi.
MoU peruntukan pembangkang diputuskan Isnin ini - Takiyuddin
Memorandum persefahaman (MoU) berkait peruntukan pembangkang berkemungkinan besar diputuskan Isnin ini.
Isu 1BestariNet: 'Wallahi, saya tidak ambil satu sen pun' - Muhyiddin
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin menafikan dirinya terlibat dalam pemberian tender perkhidmatan 1BestariNet ketika menjadi Menteri Pendidikan.