A media statement has been issued by the YAB Prime Minister regarding the Phase Transition and New Relaxation – media statement as follows:

Alhamdulillah, Malaysia continues to record a declining trend for the R-naught rate of COVID-19. Yesterday, R-naught for the whole country recorded a value of 0.88 and the admission of COVID-19 patients to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) also showed a declining trend.

Based on R-naught which remains below 1.0, the government is confident that the daily projection of new cases of COVID-19 infection will continue to record a declining trend with the cooperation of Malaysian Families complying with SOPs despite the number of daily COVID-19 infection cases showing uncertainty.

Yesterday, September 28, 2021, the National COVID-19 Immunization Program (PICK) recorded a rate of 85.1 per cent of the fully vaccinated adult population.

On behalf of Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar (KTJ) International School, we would like to share that they are offering a Sixth Form Academic Scholarship for students with outstanding academic ability and/or potential. A reduction of tuition fees of up to 75% will be given to successful applicants. Applicants from Malaysian and International schools are welcome to apply for KTJ’s 18-month Sixth Form programme beginning January 2022.

KTJ also achieved a value-added score of 0.6 from the Cambridge Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) for last year’s A-Level student, indicating that on average KTJ students achieved more than half a grade higher than predicted by the baseline testing carried out before they started their Sixth Form studies. This statistic places KTJ in the top 4% of all schools worldwide.

Ministry of International Trade and Industry has issued the Malaysia External Trade Statistics regarding Trade Performance for August 2021 and The Period of January-August 2021 – as follows:

Double-Digit Growth for Trade, Exports, Imports and Trade Surplus in August 2021

Malaysia’s trade performance remained resilient and maintained its upward momentum in August 2021. Trade increased by 15.7% to RM169.79 billion compared to August 2020, the seventh consecutive month of double-digit growth since February 2021. Exports grew by 18.4% to RM95.59 billion, the 12th consecutive month of year-on-year (y-o-y) expansion since September 2020. Imports expanded by 12.5% to RM74.2 billion while trade surplus was up by 44.7% to RM21.39 billion. Trade, exports and trade surplus registered the highest monthly value for August.

The sizeable allocation for development expenditure (DE) under the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) will be positive for gross domestic product (GDP) growth, economists said.

The DE, if implemented in a timely manner, would have immediate multiplier effects to the economy, they added.

Bank Islam chief economist Dr Mohd Afzanizam Abdul Rashid said in a nutshell, the MP12 had covered a lot of grounds.

"With timely implementation, it could accelerate the economic recovery process," Afzanizam told the New Straits Times.

He said as the government set a target to reduce fiscal deficits between 3.0 per cent and 3.5 per cent by 2025, there would be new taxes to be introduced along the way especially when the economic recovery becomes more sustainable.

YAB Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has delivered a speech while presenting A Motion on Twelve Malaysia Plan, 2021-2025: Malaysian Family – Prosperous, Inclusive, Sustainable at the House of Representatives on 27 September 2021, 11:30 AM – speech as follows:

Recognizing the challenges of reviving and regenerating the country's economy to achieve sustainable growth, taking into account the post-COVID-19 socio-economic landscape, and the achievements of the Eleventh Malaysia Plan, 2016-2020 commends the Government's efforts to plan and implement a sustainable national development agenda in line with the spirit of the Malaysian Family, the aspirations of the Vision for Shared Prosperity 2030 and the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030;

The approved Twelfth Malaysia Plan for the period 2021 to 2025, which sets a strategic direction to achieve the objective of 'Malaysian Family - Prosperous, Inclusive, Sustainable' by focusing on efforts to revive economic growth, ensuring the country's prosperity can be distributed more fairly and equitably as well as maintaining environmental sustainability by the CMD.1 Order Paper of 2021; and

Here are the highlights of the latest updated SOPs for Phase 4 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP):

Areas Involved:

Federal Territory of Labuan and Negeri Sembilan

*This SOP must be read together with the Special SOP of the Federal Territory of Labuan.

** For areas enforced by EMCO, EMCO SOP in the area is effective until the expiry date of the EMCO.

Effective Period:

*For the Federal Territory of Labuan starting on 26 August 2021 (from 12.01 am)

** For Negeri Sembilan starting on 24 September 2021 (starting 12.01 am).