PUTRAJAYA (Jan 12): The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) will reschedule the implementation of the second phase of the Malaysian Population and Housing Census 2020 which involves face-to-face interviews.

Chief statistician and Census 2020 commissioner Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the rescheduling of the second phase of the census, which was initially set for Jan 20 to Feb 6, had to be made following Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s latest announcement on the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) yesterday.