Putrajaya has declined applications by expatriates holding the Employment Pass (category 1) to go on holidays abroad during the recovery movement control order (MCO).<br /><br />Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob (above) said the government had received such applications for overseas vacations including from expatriates but did not give them the approval.<br /><br />"If they insist, they will not be allowed to return to the country (throughout the MCO)," he said at a media conference in Kuala Lumpur today.
