COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The medical response and preparedness to the outbreak in Malaysia are overseen by Director-General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah under the Health Ministry of two successive governments. The first cases in Malaysia were confirmed among travellers from China in Johor via Singapore on 25 January. While the outbreak was initially limited to imported cases, several local clusters emerged in March 2021. The most notable was a Tablighi Jamaat religious gathering in Kuala Lumpur, which cause a massive spike in local cases and imported cases in neighbouring countries. By the end of March, the total number of cases had risen from below 30 to a staggering 2,000 active cases across every state and federal territory in the country.

At over 750,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, over 65,000 active cases, and over 5,200 deaths, the country is currently ranked third in the number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia, behind Indonesia and the Philippines.

In response to rising cases, the Malaysian government led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin imposed a nationwide lockdown known as Movement Control Order, which came into effect on 18 March 2020. By early May, these MCO lockdowns had led to a gradual decline in daily infections. In response, the Malaysian government progressively relaxed lockdown restrictions in a staggered phase; beginning with the "Conditional Movement Control Order" (CMCO) on 4 May 2020, which allows most business sectors to be reopened under strict standard operating procedures (SOPs), followed by the "Recovery Movement Control Order" (RMCO) on 10 June 2020. The Malaysian government had planned to end RMCO at the end of August 2020 but due to the continuous detection of imported cases, measures were extended until the end of the year, with several sectors remained closed as well as the enforcement of strict travel restrictions from several countries.

The third wave of COVID-19 infections in the country occurred as a result of the Sabah state election in September 2020 and several outbreaks at Top Glove facilities in late 2020. In response to a sharp rise in cases nationwide throughout late 2020 and early 2021, the Malaysian government reinstated CMCO and RMCO restrictions in most states. By January 2021, the crippling effect of COVID-19 on the country's healthcare system led to the reintroduction of MCO restrictions across the various Malaysian states and federal territories, which was extended to February 18 and then to March 4, 2021. A nationwide state of emergency was also declared on 12 January 2021 by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to curb the COVID-19 spread, hence suspending Parliament and State Legislative assemblies and granting the Muhyiddin government emergency powers until 1 August 2021.

Due to a decline in new cases by early March, the government lifted MCO restrictions in most states and federal territories. The COVID-19 vaccination programme in Malaysia also began in late February 2021 as an approach to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 among its citizens and non-citizens that are residing in the country. Since mid-April 2021, several states with an increase in the number of daily infection cases have been placed under MCO restrictions by the government. With novel SARS-CoV-2 variants detected in Malaysia, exacerbated by a rapid surge in daily COVID-19 case and death numbers in the country, the government reintroduced a nationwide "total lockdown" MCO once more, which began on May 12, 2021.
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