COVID-19 in Malaysia: Food industry recovery thwarted as half of states refuse to leave lockdown

By Pearly Neo

02-Jun-2020 - Last updated on 02-Jun-2020 at 01:49 GMT

The F&B industry in Malaysia has called for food businesses in all states nationwide to ‘concurrently resume’ as per the government’s recent loosening of COVID-19 related lockdown restrictions, but has hit a snag with seven of the nation’s 14 states refusing to fully restart operations.

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