International Trade and Industry Minister Azmin Ali responded to the allegations yesterday saying the decision to allow factories to operate was made collectively in the National Security Council (NSC) meeting.<br /><br />He added that the ministry’s role was only to coordinate so that authorised parties could operate in compliance with the standard operating procedures.<br /><br />Azmin also showed data on placards from the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) and the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) that indicated only 8.8 percent of new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the manufacturing sector out of 408,134 cases nationwide between June 1 and July 23.
