BARELY a day after being sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin faced his first crisis. Anyone assuming the mantel of leadership knows that crises go with the job, but this crisis would turn out to be unprecedented on a global scale.
The Covid-19 epidemic escalated so quickly that it would be just shy of a week after Malaysia’s new cabinet was sworn in, that a movement control order (MCO) was implemented, effectively shutting down the Malaysian economy and closing Malaysia off to the world to contain the spread of the virus.