This new financial aid package should last until the end of the year when NIP is supposed to be completed.
| The Prime Minister's Office has announced a three-phase nationwide lockdown that will start with a "total lockdown" from June 1 to 14, where all sectors are not allowed to operate except for essential economic and services sectors listed by the National Security Council.
Since the MCO 3.0 total lockdown will be similar to MCO 1.0, the economic losses daily are estimated at RM2.4 billion. There is an urgent need to formulate a new RM45 billion financial aid package like last year, for the people and all economic sectors affected by the lockdown. As promised by the prime minister, an increase in monthly welfare payments to RM1,000, including the unemployed, costing RM7 billion for the remaining seven months of the year;
RM3.5 billion for the Health Ministry to increase hospital capacity and capability as well as medical equipment and human resources to avert the collapse of our public healthcare system; and