PM hopes Covid-19 special aid payments on Monday (Sept 6) will help ease people's burdens


Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob hopes that the Phase 1 payments for the Covid-19 Special Aid (BKC), to be disbursed from Monday (Sept 6), will help alleviate the burden of those impacted by Covid-19.

In a Facebook post on Sunday (Sept 5), Ismail Sabri said a total allocation of RM3.1bil had been channelled to banking institutes for the BKC payments.

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