KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20 -- Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali has denied responsibility for the closure of a mosque in Kuala Nerus, where he is the federal elected representative, for Covid-19 disinfection.

Utusan Malaysia reported the Kuala Nerus MP saying that the sanitisation exercise had nothing to do with him.

"Not linked.

"Wait for the statement from the Ministry of Health as we do not want to create panic among the people and, God willing, the ministry will do the best," he was reported saying.

He spoke to reporters after an event in Hotel Paya Bunga last night that Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Special Functions) Datuk Seri Mohd. Redzuan Md Yusof also attended.

"First...