KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — The Cabinet today approved an aid package under the new "Wilayah Cakna” initiative worth RM63.6 million to help out small businesses, Covid-19 frontliners and patients, and residents in the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan to help them cope amid the government’s movement control order.

Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said that this package with an allocation of RM63,596,650 or RM63.6 million, including an RM84,000 allocation for food for 700 homeless individuals living here until March 31.

From this RM63.6 million package, the bulk of it or RM54.3 million (RM54,296,550) is to help Federal Territories residents comprising of the urban poor, the B40 group, students, homeless, small traders and hawkers, while RM5.9 million (RM5,945,100) is for Covid-19 frontliners comprising of medical and security personnel and the remaining RM3.4 million (RM3,335,000) is for patients, patients-under-investigation (PUI) and victims of Covid-19, he said.

Below is the breakdown of the RM63.6 million package announced by Annuar:

Government health workers attend to members of the public at the Kuala Lumpur Health Clinic March 24, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon

1. Covid-19 frontliners

Food and drinks — RM180,100

Additional equipment — RM500,000

Finances and special allowances for medical personnel and movement control order enforcement personnel — RM5.415 million

2. Covid-19 patients, PUI, and victims

Patients, PUI and victims living costs and charity — RM85,000

Additional respiratory support equipment — RM3.27 million

3. Federal Territories residents and businesses

A. People’s Housing Project (PPR) and Public Housing (PA) MTEN-DBKL — RM4.96 million