KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 -- Economic observers think it will take more than just overcoming the Covid-19 threat in the country to restore consumer and investor confidence.

They predict that it will only see a resurgence if the government can roll out a sustainable post-Covid-19 economic plan to help businesses hit hard by the global pandemic.

Professor Yeah Kim Leng, who is a director of the Economic Studies Programme at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on South-east Asia, told Malay Mail that it will require the "synergistic effect" of government, businesses and household spending to reinvigorate confidence in Malaysia's economy.

"This (consumer and investor confidence) will likely happen when we are able to get on top of the virus. While ther...