No political motive for state of Emergency, but a matter of life and death, says Takiyuddin

PETALING JAYA: The proclamation of the state of Emergency is not with a political motive, nor does it suspend the Federal Constitution, says Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Parliament) Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan.

He said that the declaration was made by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on the advice of the Cabinet, and after much deliberation with top authorities in the government to manage the Covid-19 pandemic which has become unmanageable using only the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342).