The various stages of the movement control order (MCO) in place since March 18 are meant to contain the spread of Covid-19, but cannot end the pandemic, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<br /><br />The Health director-general said that during a special briefing on Covid-19 issues here on Saturday (Nov 21), adding that the imposition of the conditional, enhanced and recovery MCO was meant to break the chain of infection within the community.<br /><br />Dr Noor Hisham said the conditional MCO has proven to work, but the R-value is still between 0.9 and 1 now, and it is "not good enough", adding that if the R-value can be brought down to below 0.5, then the recovery MCO can be resumed.<br /><br />Read more at https://bit.ly/392Tpju<br /><br />WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news<br />SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar<br />LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
