ALL eyes were on the Malaysian Economic and Rakyat’s Protection Assistance Package (Permai) in the week following the announcement of the movement control order 2.0 (MCO 2.0).
The government’s assistance package, the seventh economic stimulus that had been announced since Covid-19 begun, is expected to sustain the areas of the economy that continue to be battered from the after-effects of the pandemic.
But the saving grace this time around is that the country is facing the renewed spread of the pandemic on a stronger economic footing.
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