KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 -- Ahead of the conditional movement control order (CMCO) tomorrow, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has advised senior citizens and those with non-communicable diseases (NCD) to stay at home since they are more vulnerable to Covid-19.

Its director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told his daily Covid-19 press conference that based on their study, the elderly is the most vulnerable group to being infected and killed by the deadly novel coronavirus, followed by those suffering from NCDs.

"Based on our mortality review on 99 out of the 105 Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia, we have found that those in the age group between 61 and 70 have the highest death rate which is 32 cases or 32.2 per cent.

"The second largest age gro...