Kelantan warns of possible Ramadan bazaar ban

KOTA BHARU, 29 March 2020:

Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob today said that there might be no Ramadan bazaar in the state this year.

He said the state government had yet to decide definitively on the matter and any decision would be based on the current state of the Covid-19 outbreak.

“The state government has not finalised the matter but for now, no Ramadan bazaar will be held,” he told reporters after chairing the Kelantan-level National Security Council (MKN) meeting at the Kota Darul Naim Complex here.

The Negeri Sembilan government has already ruled there will be no Ramadan bazaars this year – the first state in the country to do so.

The decision was made in an effort to ensure the safeguard of the people following the Covid-19 outbreak in Malaysia, said Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun.

He said the decision was taken because the extended movement control order (MCO), which ends on April 14, was too close to the month of Ramadan when Muslims fast.

– Bernama