He made the conclusion after finding that many shoppers still recorded their attendance manually, during inspections at several retail premises, including at the IOI City Mall here, today.

“I urge everyone to use the application because it has many benefits including facilitating contact tracing and communications,” he told reporters.

Yesterday, the minister Alexander Nanta Linggi said that the new two-hour shopping time limit at retail premises will be monitored through the MySejahtera application, and this would ease the ministry’s personnel or staff members of the outlets to conduct checks if necessary.

The shopping time limit was among the SOPs of the tighter third movement control order which came into effect today to curb the spread of Covid-19 infections in the country.

Hasnol said shoppers who spent more than two hours in retail premises would face compounds for violating the SOPs.

He said the two-hour limit was reasonable and customers should plan their shopping activities accordingly.

Hasnol also praised the efforts taken by the IOI City Mall management to issue attendance stickers with time and date to its customers.

Its security manager Mohamad Abu Talib said that besides using the attendance stickers, the staff would manually record the details of customers who have issues with their MySejahtera application.

“In the mall, the auxiliary police personnel and customer service staff will monitor the shoppers. If they exceed the time limit, we will politely ask them to leave the premises,” he added.