PM: Barring travellers from India is a matter of public health


TANGKAK: The government’s decision to bar travellers from India from entering into the country is not discriminatory or racist, instead it is to curb the spread of a new Covid-19 variant, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

He said the decision was taken at the special National Security Council (MKN) meeting he chaired yesterday.

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