24 Jan 2021 / 11:30 H. KUALA LUMPUR: Tomorrow marks a year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country with the first case involving three Chinese nationals who entered Malaysia via Johor from Singapore on Jan 20, 2020. During the first wave, majority of the COVID-19 cases were imported and did not involve Malaysians, while the infection during the second wave involved local transmission with the first case reported on Feb 4, 2020. It was during the second wave that the government imposed the Movement Control Order (MCO), beginning March 18 with strict standard operating procedures (SOP) and a few months later, when the infection showed a declining trend, the government loosened the SOP slightly with the introduction of the Conditional MCO (CMCO) from May 4 May, followed by the Recovery MCO (RMCO) on June 10.