Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has clarified that restaurants with valid liquor licences are allowed to operate under the conditional movement-control order (CMCO), The Star reported.
- Restaurants, food courts, hawker centres, roadside stalls, food trucks, mobile stalls, temporary roadside stalls will be allowed to operate from 7am to 10pm
- Outlets with entertainment licence such as pubs, bars and nightclubs will have to remain closed
- Cinemas, theatres, karaoke centres, theme parks, museums, entertainment centres and busking will not be allowed
Kuala Lumpur Mayor Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan said they are allowed to open if they have the appropriate licenses issued by DBKL.
“If they have DBKL premise licences and the licence to sell liquor from the Customs Department, they can be open for business,” he was quoted as saying.
Yesterday, Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa said pubs and restaurants selling liquor are not allowed to operate during the CMCO.
He said the ministry has received complaints from non-Muslims that such premises in Kuala Lumpur are operating at night.
“Customers at pubs were not practising social distancing. I want to make clear that pubs are not restaurants. Eateries that sell liquor are also not considered restaurants that are allowed to reopen.
“Although they serve food, they are still included in the ‘negative list’ along with karaoke and entertainment centres. They are not yet allowed to open for business.”
He said DBKL enforcement officers conducted checks on 91 premises on Monday.
They found 36 outlets that were not enforcing 1m distancing between customers, while 48 did not have social-distancing markers and 28 did not provide hand sanitisers.
Nor Hisham also urged the outlets to adhere to the rules and regulations of the CMCO.
However, he said that outlets with an entertainment licence such as pubs, bars and nightclubs will have to remain closed.
He also said restaurants, food courts, hawker centres, roadside stalls, food trucks, mobile stalls, temporary roadside stalls will be allowed to operate from 7am to 10pm.
However, cinemas, theatres, karaoke centres, theme parks, museums, entertainment centres and busking will not be allowed.
The MCO, which ends on May 12 is aimed at breaking the chain of Covid-19 infections. On Monday, some restrictions were lifted to allow most sectors to resume operations on condition that health and safety rules are followed. – TMI