Let’s practise self-regulation

THE Emergency (Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 will come into effect on March 11. Among others, this ordinance holds that companies or corporations that violate the standard operating procedures stipulated for the prevention and control of the Covid-19 pandemic can be fined up to RM50,000.

Restaurants owners and operators are struggling to generate revenue with the many restrictions already in place. If managing their cash flow is not difficult enough, they now have to take on the added role of policing rude, abusive or violent customers who insist on breaking the SOP on their premises.