KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — DAP Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming has called for a tell-all press conference to be hosted by Putrajaya.

Ong urged Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and key Cabinet ministers to hold a joint press conference and field questions from journalists in the event a more severe or total lockdown is implemented in the Klang Valley or Malaysia.

"There has been increasing speculation that a lockdown, either in the Klang Valley or the entire Peninsular Malaysia, may take place very soon especially since the number of new cases exceeded 6,000 yesterday.

"I support what was said yesterday by Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad, the head of the Selangor Taskforce on Covid-19 (SFTC) and later re-emphasised by the Mentri Besar of Selangor, Datuk Seri  Amirudin Shahri, that a lockdown would be acceptable but it must come with other conditions such as financial assistance to help the most affected groups including the bottom 40.

"Clear announcements and implementation of SOPs, sufficient facilities and equipment for learning at home and a clear strategy for mass testing and beyond (Find, Test, Trace, Isolate and Support or FTTIS), just to name a few,” he said in a statement today.

"Journalists must be allowed to ask as many questions as they want to these ministers and the ministers must present clear and concrete answers to these questions,” said Ong.

The questions raised by Ong are: