Hard at work: Medical staff attending to Covid-19 patients at Labuan Nucleus Hospital in Labuan. — Bernama PETALING JAYA: The extension of the movement control under Phase One of the National Recovery Plan is necessary for Malaysia to get back on the road to recovery, say health experts. They said the country had “no choice” while it waited for the vaccination rate in the country to ramp up and start having an effect on transmissions. Universiti Putra Malaysia medical epidemiologist Assoc Prof Dr Malina Osman said current restrictions should be continued given that the average number of daily cases continued to hover at around 5,000, with fatalities numbering more than 80 every day.