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Non-Compliance of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) During Movement Control Order (MCO) for COVID-19 in Malaysia A Conceptual Framework

Nik Noor Afizah Azlan, Raja Mariam Raja Baniamin, Mohd Shaqir Idris, Ahmad Suffian Mohd Zahari

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i8/14395

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of Malaysian citizens as a whole. When the pandemic outbreak happened back in the year 2020, the Government and the policymakers took preventive steps and directive measures to sustain the social movement and curb the infection among the citizens. The Malaysian government issued large-scale social restrictions (called Movement Control Order or MCO), starting on 18 March 2020 to control the spread of COVID 19 across the country. Citizens’ compliance poses a challenge when implementing large-scale social restrictions, and various factors have contributed to public noncompliance with the regulation. The purpose of this study is to examine a relationship between non-compliance and three independent factors in this study which are citizen attitudes and behaviour, weaknesses of law enforcement and misinterpretation of information with non-compliance being the dependent variable.

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In-Text Citation: (Azlan et al., 2022)
To Cite this Article: Azlan, N. N. A., Baniamin, R. M. R., Idris, M. S., & Zahari, A. S. M. (2022). Non-Compliance of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) During Movement Control Order (MCO) for COVID-19 in Malaysia A Conceptual Framework. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(8), 774 – 784.