KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 -- Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has reminded Malaysians that despite Putrajaya's decision to relax the movement control order (MCO), it is up to the public to safeguard their own safety.

In his daily Covid-19 press conference, the defence minister cited Taiwan as an example of a nation with the lowest death and infection rate, but without having to impose or implement any form of movement control or quarantine lockdown.

"I take a small country - Taiwan, as an example. They never implemented any MCO, there's no lockdown. But they have the lowest cases of death in the world (six) and their infection rate is among the lowest in the world.

"They don't have any lockdowns or MCO but th...