Youth and Sports Minister Ahmad Faizal Azumu has apologised to gym owners and operators over a miscommunication that gymnasiums in states under Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) are allowed to reopen from today.

The ministry will push for their reopening as soon as possible, pledged Faizal.

This came after his deputy minister, Ti Lian Ker, was quoted by The Star as saying that gymnasiums in states under Phase 2 and 3 will reopen from today (Sept 17) onward.