CORONAVIRUS | Barely hours after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced further relaxing of Covid-19 prevention restrictions, over 1,000 bookings from June 10 onwards have reportedly been made for hotel rooms in Langkawi.

Astro Awani quoted Langkawi Tourism Association CEO Zainuddin Kadir as saying that the development marked a positive start to revival of the domestic tourism sector which has been badly hit by the pandemic.

"Between 4pm and 4.45pm today, we received 1,000 bookings in less than...