This includes song recording, animation or music production, pre-production, post-production and digital music production, besides filming.

“The government acknowledges the pleas from those in the creative industry. After conducting a risk evaluation with several agencies, the government has agreed to allow the industry to operate,” he told a press conference today.

Among the SOPs is a requirement for production houses filming in studios to obtain a special certificate from the Malaysian National Film Development Corporation (Finas), with a list of names of those involved.

All involved will have to go for Covid-19 tests, with the results given to Finas three days before filming begins.

The full SOPs can be obtained at the National Security Council’s website.

Ismail also said Putrajaya had agreed to allow teams in the Malaysian Football League, Malaysian Hockey League and Sepak Takraw League to hold quarantine-based training programmes from Feb 15.

The movement and training of the athletes will be controlled and in a sports bubble, with all of them required to comply with “camp-quarantine” and “home-quarantine” SOPs.

Meanwhile, he said the government was still studying the youth and sports ministry’s proposal to reopen individual sports activities for the public during the movement control order.

“We are in the final stage of looking through the matter and a decision will be announced soon.”