JERTEH: Malaysia had to act promptly to freeze visas on visitors from SARS-affected countries to avoid an influx of people coming from there.
The Government cannot set a time frame before imposing the freeze because it will cause people from the affected countries to come here in droves and this will result in us losing control of the situation, said Acting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
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