On 15 June 2021, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri
Muhyiddin Yassin, unveiled the four-phase National Recovery Plan
("NRP") whereby movement control
measures will be gradually eased as Malaysia transitions from one
phase to the next phase. The key threshold indicators for the four
phases are the Covid-19 infection rate in the community based on
the number of daily Covid-19 cases, capacity of the public
healthcare system based on the utilisation of intensive care unit
("ICU") beds, and vaccination rate. Our
previous Alerts on the NRP can be read here and here.
On 7 August 2021, the Coordinating Minister of the NRP , Tengku
Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz ("Tengku
Zafrul") who is also the Minister of Finance, announced that the key
threshold indicator of the number of daily Covid-19 cases will be
replaced with a new indicator namely the number of new hospital
admissions for symptomatic Covid-19 cases in Categories 3, 4 and
5.1 The other key threshold
