#kerajaangagal62  – Call on Muhyiddin to convene an All-Party All-NGOs Conference to Save Malaysia from Covid-19 Pandemic with a  five-point War Plan

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The new record of daily increase of 6,976 new Covid-19 cases is the best  answer to the National Security Council’s decision last Friday on stringent measures in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

It seemed to confirm the response of a  doctor friend when I asked him yesterday what he thought of the NSC decision and his answer was:

“From medical perspective, total crap.

“From political survival perspective, good for them.

“From public perspective, people are doomed.”

For the last 15 months, we  have been fight a losing war, though an invisible war, against the Covid-19 pandemic  since the Sheraton Move conspiracy toppled the democratically-elected Pakatan Harapan government after 22 months.

We have paid with over 2,200 lives. How many more Malaysians must die before we come to the end of the Covid-19 pandemic?

The country is facing its worst moment of survival since we achieved Merdeka in 1957, and I call on all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political beliefs,  to put their personal and political differences aside and  to focus singly on the task to  win this invisible war against the Covid-18 pandemic and to  save Malaysian lives and livelihoods.

I suggest that the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, should immediately convene an All-Party All-NGOs Conference to Save Malaysia from Covid-19 Pandemic with a five-point war plan:

·        Restore public and confidence in war plan against the Covid-19 pandemic;

·        National mobilisation of Malaysians  to ensure “entire-of-society” strategy and approach;

·        A new economic stimulus package to help the poor and vulnerable;

·        Effective and efficient Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) to ensure that we are always ahead of the pandemic curve; and

·        Acceleration of the national vaccination rollout especially in view of deadly Covid-19 variants.

Malaysians must unite for a new start to win the invisible war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

I am confident that all political parties and NGOs are prepared to put national interests above all else and this includes the Opposition parties.

Malaysians deserve better!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 23rd May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal62 — Seruan kepada Muhyiddin untuk memanggil Persidangan Semua-Parti dan Semua-NGO untuk Menyelamatkan Negara dari Wabak Covid-19 dengan lima rancangan utama

Rekod baharu 6,976 kes baharu hari ini adalah jawapan terbaik kepada keputusan Majlis Keselamatan Negara hari Jumaat lepas untuk mengambil langkah-langkah ketat dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19.

Perkara ini kelihatan seakan-akan mengesahkan apa yang dikatakan oleh seorang rakan yang merupakan seorang doktor apabila saya menanyakan pendapat beliau mengenai keputusan MKN ini, yang dijawab beliau:

“Dari pandangan perubatan, langsung tak masuk akal.

“Dari segi kelangsungan hidup politik, baik untuk mereka.

“Untuk rakyat, habislah mereka.”

Dalam tempoh 15 bulan yang lepas, kita telah berjuang dalam satu peperangan di mana kita kalah, melawan wabak Covid-19 sejak daripada penumbangan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton.

2,200 nyawa telah terkorban akibat perang ini. Berapa ramaikah lagi yang perlu terkorban sebelum wabak ini berakhir?

Negara kita sedang berhadapan dengan saat-saat terburuk terhadap kelangsungan kehidupannya sejak kita mencapai Merdeka pada tahun 1957, dan saya seru kepada semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, atau pegangan politik untuk mengetepikan perbezaan peribadi dan politik dan fokus kepada usaha untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak ini dan menyelamatkan nyawa serta punca pendapatan rakyat Malaysia.

Saya cadangkan supaya Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, segera memanggil Persidangan Semua-Parti dan Semua-NGO untuk Menyelamatkan Malaysia dengan rancangan perang lima-mata:

–     Mengembalikan semula keyakinan dan kepercayaan rakyat dalam rancangan melawan Covid-19;

–    Mobilisasi nasional semua rakyat Malaysia untuk memastikan terdapat pendekatan dan strategi melibatkan “keseluruhan masyarakat”;

–    Pakej rangsangan ekonomi baharu untuk membantu golongan miskin dan memerlukan;

–    Langkah Carian-Ujian-Jejak-Asingkan-Sokongan (FTTIS) yang berkesan dan efisyen untuk memastikan kita berada di hadapan lengkuk penularan wabak ini; dan

–    Pemecutan pelaksanaan Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan (PICK), terutamanya memandangkan terdapat pelbagai variasi baharu yang merbahaya.

Semua rakyat Malaysia perlu bersatu padu untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak ini.

Saya yakin yang semua parti politik dan NGO bersedia untuk meletakkan kepentingan negara di atas semua perkara, termasuklah parti-parti pembangkang!

Rakyat Malaysia berhak untuk yang lebih baik!

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Ahad, 23 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal63 –  Prime Minister Muhyiddin has presided over a war of failure against the Covid-19 pandemic for 15 months,   from 29 Covid-19 cases and zero death on March 1, 2020  to  512,091 Covid-19 cases and 2,249 deaths – is this not enough evidence  to demand a new start in the war?

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The Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said he was prepared to take abuse from the public amid frustration over measures against Covid-19 but urged people to play their part in bringing the pandemic under control.

He said: “They can blame the government. They can scold the prime minister. I accept. Scold ‘stupid prime minister’, it’s okay. I can say it on television.

“I know how difficult it is to manage. But this is our joint responsibility. The approach is not whole-of-government but whole-of-society.

“The entire society must come together, only then we can flatten the Covid-19 curve.”

Muhyiddin began his premiership on March 1, 2020. At that time, Malaysia’s data on the Covid-19 pandemic was 29 Covid-19 cases and zero death.

After 15 months of Muhyiddinn as Prime Minister, there are now 510,091 Covid-19 cases and 2,249 Covid-19 deaths.

What is worse, there is no light at the end of the tunnel!

Yesterday broke the record on daily increase of new Covid-19 cases with 6,976 new

Covid-19 cases, the 12th consecutive day Malaysia has more new daily cases than Indonesia, although Indonesia has about nine times Malaysia’s population.

Even India and United States are undergoing sharp drops in their surge of increase of cases – India by over 50% from its peak and United States by over 90% from its peak – but Malaysia is on the upsurge, breaking new records in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases.

Is this not enough evidence to convince the Muhyiddin’s government that it  is fighting a losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic, that the emergency declared on January 11, 2021  suspending Parliament and the State Assemblies to combat the Covid-19 pandemic were a resounding failure and that the time has come for a new start and new strategy to win the war against Covid-19 pandemic?

The Prime Minister talks about a “whole-of-society” strategy but  does he realise that  his war strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic was not a “whole-of-society” strategy with Parliament and the State Assemblies suspended and that the deficit of public trust and confidence on his war strategy is the worst faced by any Prime Minister in Malaysian history?

Muhyiddin must admit that he had failed in the last 15 months in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and he must be prepared, for the country’s sake, for a new start and strategy to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Muhyiddin should immediately convene an All-Party All-NGOs Conference to Save Malaysia from Covid-19 Pandemic with a five-point War Plan:

·       Restore public and confidence in war plan against the Covid-19 pandemic;

·       National mobilisation of Malaysians  to ensure a genuine  “whole-of-society” strategy and approach;

·       A new economic stimulus package to help the poor and vulnerable;

·       Effective and efficient Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) strategy  to ensure that we are always ahead of the pandemic curve; and

·       Acceleration of the national vaccination rollout especially in view of deadly Covid-19 variants.

The country is facing its worst moment of survival since we achieved Merdeka in 1957, and I call on all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political beliefs,  to put their personal and political differences aside and  to focus singly on the task to  win this invisible war against the Covid-18 pandemic and to  save Malaysian lives and livelihoods.

Muhyiddin should convene Parliament immediately and allow the various State Assemblies to meet.

I have said that all political parties, whether in government or opposition, should reach a new consensus that there would be no “no confidence” motion in Parliament and the State Assemblies, and that Parliament and the State Assembles should serve their full term from the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and that there should be no  earlier general election unless the war against the Covid-19 pandemic is won.

The ball is in Muhyiddin’s court.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 24th Maty 2021)

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#kerajaangagal63 — Perdana Menteri Muhyiddin telah mengetuai perang gagal dalam menentang wabak Covid-19 selama 15 bulan, dari 29 kes Covid-19 dan sifar kematian pada 1 Mac 2020 kepada 512,091 kes Covid-19 dan 2,249 kematian — bukankah ini bukti yang cukup untuk kita mendesak langkah dan strategi baharu dalam peperangan ini?

Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin berkata beliau bersedia menjadi sasaran kemarahan orang ramai yang kecewa dengan langkah-langkah yang diambil kerajaan bagi membendung Covid-19, namun menyeru agar rakyat untuk turut sama memainkan peranan mereka dalam melandai lekuk jangkitan wabak itu.

Katanya: “Bolehlah nak salahkan kerajaan, marah perdana menteri pun tak apalah, saya terimalah. Rakyat kata: ‘Apa bodoh perdana menteri’, tak apa.

“Saya tahu macam mana susah nak menguruskannya.

“Kalau kita sedia menerima hakikat ini (adalah) masalah bersama, pendekatan kita bukan keseluruhan kerajaan, (tetapi) ia adalah keseluruhan masyarakat.

“Seluruh masyarakat mesti berganding bahu, barulah boleh kita landaikan lekuk jangkitan Covid-19.”

Muhyiddin menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020. Ketika itu, kes positif Covid-19 yang direkodkan adalah sebanyak 29 kes tanpa sebarang kematian dicatatkan.

Selepas 15 bulan Muhyiddin memegang tampuk kuasa, negara kini merekodkan 510,091 kes Covid 19 dengan 2,249 kematian.

Lebih buruk, kita belum dapat melibat penghujung kepada episod ngeri ini.

Semalam, rekod baharu tercipta apabila negara mencatatkan 6,976 kes baharu positif Covid-19 — 12 hari berturut-turut di mana kadar peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 di Malaysia melebihi kadar di Indonesia, meskipun bilangan penduduk di negara jiran itu adalah sembilan kali ganda daripada Malaysia.

India dan Amerika Syarikat yang mengalami penurunan mendadak dalam kes baharu — India mencatatkan penurunan lebih 50% dan Amerika Syarikat lebih 90% – sebaliknya Malaysia terus melihat peningkatan mendadak kes positif baharu Covid-19, sehingga memecahkan rekod sebelumnya.

Bukankah ini bukti yang cukup untuk menyakinkan kerajaan Muhyiddin bahawa mereka telah gagal dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19, dan bahawa pengisytiharan darurat pada 11 Januari 2021 yang menggantung Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri dengan alasan untuk melawan pandemik Covid-19 adalah sebuah kegagalan terbesar, dan sudah tiba masanya untuk kerajaan mengambil pendekatan dan strategi baharu bagi memenangi perang menentang virus ini?

Perdana menteri bercakap tentang strategi “keseluruhan masyarakat”, namun sedarkah beliau bahawa strategi yang diterapkannya itu sebenarnya bukanlah strategi “keseluruhan masyarakat” kerana Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri masih digantung dan defisit kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat terhadap strategi peperangan beliau adalah yang paling terburuk yang pernah dialami oleh mana-mana perdana menteri dalam sejarah Malaysia?

Muhyiddin harus mengakui bahawa beliau telah gagal selama 15 bulan berdepan peperangan terhadap pandemik Covid-19 dan beliau harus bersiap sedia, demi negara, bagi memulakan langkah serta strategi baharu untuk memenangi perang menentang pandemik Covid-19.

Muhyiddin Yassin harus segera memanggil Persidangan Semua-Parti dan Semua-NGO untuk Menyelamatkan Malaysia dengan rancangan perang lima-mata:

–     Mengembalikan semula keyakinan dan kepercayaan rakyat dalam rancangan melawan Covid-19;

–    Mobilisasi nasional semua rakyat Malaysia untuk memastikan terdapat pendekatan dan strategi melibatkan “keseluruhan masyarakat”;

–    Pakej rangsangan ekonomi baharu untuk membantu golongan miskin dan memerlukan;

–    Langkah Carian-Ujian-Jejak-Asingkan-Sokongan (FTTIS) yang berkesan dan efisyen untuk memastikan kita berada di hadapan lengkuk penularan wabak ini; dan

–    Pemecutan pelaksanaan Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan (PICK), terutamanya memandangkan terdapat pelbagai variasi baharu yang merbahaya.

Negara berdepan dengan dugaan terbesar sejak kita mencapai kemerdekaan pada 1957, dan saya menyeru semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama atau fahaman politik, untuk sama-sama mengenepikan perbezaan peribadi serta politik dan untuk memberikan tumpuan tidak berbelah bahagi terhadap tugas untuk memenangi peperangan terhadap musuh yang tidak kelihatan ini, bagi menyelamatkan punca rezeki dan kehidupan setiap rakyat Malaysia.

Muhyiddin harus memanggil segera sidang Parlimen dan membenarkan Dewan Undangan Negeri untuk bermesyuarat.

Saya pernah berkata bahawa semua parti politik, tidak kira kerajaan mahupun pembangkang, harus mencapai satu konsensus baharu di mana tiada undi “tidak percaya” akan dibentangkan di Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri untuk membolehkan penggal Parlimen dan DUN sedia ada dipenuhkan dari 9 Mei 2018 dan tiada pilihan raya awal akan dilaksanakan kecuali peperangan terhadap pandemik Covid-19 telah berjaya dimenangi.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 24 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal64 – Police should learn from the Prime Minister to be less stiff and stuffy or are the Police going to charge social media users for  sedition if they  had called  the police “stupid” in the “Nilai3 in Selangor” incident?

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The Police should learn from the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to be less stiff and stuffy or are the Police going to charge social media users for sedition if they had called the police “stupid” in the “Nilai3 is in Selangor” incident?

Muhyiddin said in a special telecast last night that people can scold the Prime Minister “stupid” in the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, that it’s okay and he would say it on television.

But can the people scold the police “stupid” when they were “stupid”?

This does not seem to be case in the “Nilai3 is in Selangor” episode, as a joke that Nilai 3 in Negri Sembilan is in Selangor had resulted in a police investigation.

Hasn’t the police got more serious things to do, like investigating the  cause of  the deaths of A. Ganapathy and S. Sivabalan?

The joke was spawned after celebrity Neelofa Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor and her husband Muhammad Haris Mohd Ismail were not charged despite an interstate trip to a carpet shop in Nilai 3 while a travel ban was in place due to Covid-19.

However, they were charged with failing to register their visit at the premises and for not wearing a mask.

The police, in a statement, said they were investigating the owner of a Facebook account called “N9 Radar” for making the joke under Section 505 of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 as the joke could cause public alarm (kegentaran awam).

Section 505(b) provides up to two years imprisonment or a fine or both for anyone who makes a statement that can cause fear or alarm to the public. Section 233 concerns the misuse of network facilities and provides a punishment of up to a year in prison or a fine of up to RM50,000, or both.

Is the public order and security in Malaysia so fragile and brittle that it could be upset by a harmless joke like “Nilai3 is in Selangor”?

The new IGP Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani should send a message to the police force that the police should learn from the Prime Minister and to focus single-mindedly on crime  and breaches of law and order and not to be so stiff and stuffy like the “Nilai3 in Selangor” episode.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 24th May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal64 — Pihak Polis perlu belajar daripada Perdana Menteri untuk tidak bertindak dengan terlalu keras atau adakah mereka akan mendakwa pengguna media sosial atas dakwaan hasutan kerana mengatakan polis “bodoh” dalam insiden “Nilai 3 berada di Selangor”?

Pihak Polis perlu belajar daripada Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, untuk tidak bertindak dengan terlalu keras atau adakah mereka akan mendakwa pengguna media sosial atas dakwaan hasutan kerana mengatakan polis “bodoh” dalam insiden “Nilai 3 berada di Selangor”?

Muhyiddin mengatakan semalam dalam siaran khas wawancara beliau malam semalam yang rakyat boleh marah “Perdana Menteri bodoh” dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19, bahawa beliau tidak kisah mengenai perkara ini.

Namun, bolehkan rakyat marah kepada “kebodohan” pihak polis apabila mereka bertindak secara “bodoh”?

Perkara ini tidak kelihatan seperti dibenarkan dalam episod “Nilai 3 di Selangor”, memandangkan satu jenaka yang mengatakan Nilai 3 di Negeri Sembilan, berada di Selangor telah menyebabkan polis membuka siasatan.

Tidakkah polis mempunyai perkara yang lebih serius untuk dilakukan, seperti menyiasat punca kematian A. Ganapathy dan S. Sivabalan?

Jenaka ini muncul selepas selebriti Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor dan suami beliau, Muhammad Haris Mohd Ismail, tidak didakwa walaupun selepas melalukan perjalanan merentas negeri ke kedai karpet di Nilai 3 sedangkan sekatan pergerakan merentas negeri sedang berkuatkuasa kerana wabak Covid-19.

Namun, mereka telah didakwa kerana gagal untuk mendaftarkan lawatan mereka dan kerana tidak memakai pelitup muka.

Pihak Polis dalam satu kenyataan, mengatakan yang mereka sedang menyiasat pemilik laman Facebook yang bernama “N9 Radar” kerana membuat jenaka tersebut di bawah Seksyen 505 Kanun Keseksaan dan Seksyen 233 Akta Komunikasi dan Multimedia 1998 memandangkan jenaka tersebut boleh menyebabkan kegentaran awam.

Seksyen 505(b) memperuntukkan hukuman penjara selama dua tahun, atau denda, atau keduanya sekali ke atas sesiapa yang membuat kenyataan yang menyebabkan kerisauan atau kegentaran kepada pihak awam. Seksyen 233 pula adalah berkenaan penyalahgunaan fasiliti rangkaian dan memperuntukkan hukuman sehingga setahun penjara, denda sehingga RM50,000, atau keduanya sekali.

Adakah ketenteraman dan keselamatan dalam negara sebegitu rapuh sekali sehinggakan jenaka tidak merbahaya seperti “ Nilai 3 di Selangor” ini dapat menggugatnya?

KPN baharu, Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani perlu memberikan mesej yang jelas kepada pasukan polis yang mereka perlu belajar daripada Perdana Menteri dan menumpukan perhatian mereka kepada jenayah dan pelanggaran undang-undang dan bukannya bersikap keras tanpa mengira tempat sehingga tidak dapat menerima jenaka “Nilai 3 di Selangor”.

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 24 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal65 – Muhyiddin should be mindful of the 18-rung freefall of Malaysia’s  press freedom index and remind his bloated Cabinet to follow his example of tolerating critics including those who call him “stupid”

The Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, should be mindful of the 18-rung freefall of Malaysia’s 2021 press freedom index and remind his bloated Cabinet to follow his example of tolerating critics including those who call him “stupid”.

It is  most unfortunate that the clampdown on press freedom  has happened under the charge of the Minister for Communications and Multimedia,  Saifuddin Abdullah, who had always presented himself as a liberal and open-minded person who would be in the forefront to champion press freedom instead of doing the very opposite.

Ranked 119 in the Reporters Without Border’s (RSF)  2021 annual press freedom index, Malaysia’s press freedom situation improved dramatically after the 2018 elections, but things have gone in reverse since Muhyiddin took over as head of a backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate administration.

Saifuddin should explain why Malaysia has suffered such a freefall in the press freedom index and why he could not maintain his predecessor,  Gobind

Singh Deo’s  efforts in promoting press freedom in Malaysia.

RSF had said: “For the media, the restoration of more authoritarian rule in 2020 has led to prosecutions, police searches, expulsions (of journalists and a whistleblower) and flagrant violations of the confidentiality of journalists’ sources.

“To protect themselves against the government’s offensive, many journalists have had to censor themselves.”

It is time that Saifuddin to speak up!

If the stifling of press freedom since the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan government after 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy is not according to his  wishes and principles, is he prepared to make an issue of it by resigning from the bloated Cabinet if the repressive actions against the press do not cease?

It is also time for Muhyiddin to show that his premiership is not against press freedom in Malaysia.

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 24th May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal66 – Malaysia  beating the world’s top ten countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases on Sunday in the category of “confirmed cases per million” is a great dishonour and shame for the country

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Malaysia  beating the world’s top ten countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases on Sunday in the category of “confirmed cases per million” is a great dishonour and shame for the country.

These statistics are available on the Our World In Data website. For Sunday, 23rd May 2021, the “daily confirmed cases per million” for Malaysia and the top 10 countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases are as follows:

Daily  confirmed cases per million on May 23, 2021

Top Ten Countries May 23,2021

1.USA –           38.83

2. India  – 161.10

3. Brazil –     168.51

4. France     –  143.63

5. Turkey   –   92.95

6. Russia    –  60.49

7. UK     – 30.83

8. Italy     – 66.04

9. Germany  – 55.42

10. Spain    – 92.90

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42. Malaysia  –  215.53

This is a national disgrace which the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin must bear full  responsibility and he must  explain the failure of the  emergency which was declared on January 11, 2021 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic which cannot be shirked away with the excuse that the people can scold him for being “stupid” in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.

When he became the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia on March 1, 2020, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 death.

After 15 months of Muhyiddin as Prime Minister, there are now 518,600 Covid-19 cases and 2,309 Covid-19 deaths.

When the  emergency was declared on January 11, 2021, the cumulative total of cases was 138,224 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.

The  number of Covid-19 cases in the 19 weeks of emergency have increased by more than two-and-a-half times the number of Covid-19 cases in first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, while the number of Covid-19 deaths in the 19 months of the emergency  was more than three times the deaths in the one year of the pandemic before the emergency.

How many Malaysians are going to be infected with Covid-19 and die of Covid-19 before we bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control?

But all these failures in the war against the Covid-19 paled into insignificance, when on Sunday we beat the world’s  top 10 nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in the “Daily confirmed cases per million” category  in Our World in Data.

Malaysia has failed miserably in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic in five key aspects, viz:

·       Maintain public trust and confidence in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic;

·       National mobilisation of Malaysians through a genuine “whole-of-society” strategy and approach;

·       A new economic stimulus package to help the poor and vulnerable;

·       Effective and efficient Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) strategy to ensure that we are always ahead of the pandemic curve; and

·       Acceleration of the national vaccination rollout especially in view of deadly Covid-19 variants.

Muhyiddin must admit that he had failed in the last 15 months in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and he must be prepared, for the country’s sake, for a new start and strategy to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The country is facing its worst moment of survival since we achieved Merdeka in 1957, and I call on all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political beliefs, to put their personal and political differences aside and to focus singly on the task to win this invisible but deadly war against the Covid-18 pandemic and to save Malaysian lives and livelihoods.

Muhyiddin should immediately convene an All-Party All-NGOs Conference to Save Malaysia from Covid-19 Pandemic with a new  War Plan.

He should also convene Parliament immediately and allow the various State Assemblies to meet to ensure that we have a “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

All political parties, whether in government or opposition, should reach a new consensus that there would be no “no confidence” motion in Parliament and the State Assemblies, and that Parliament and the State Assembles should serve their full term from the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and that there should be no earlier general election unless the war against the Covid-19 pandemic is won.

Muhyiddin must prove that he is prepared to put national interests above personal  and party interests.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 25th May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal66 — Malaysia menewaskan 10 negara dengan jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 tertinggi pada hari Ahad dalam kategori “kes per sejuta penduduk” merupakan satu perkara yang memalukan dan mengaibkan nama baik negara

Malaysia menewaskan 10 negara dengan jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 tertinggi pada hari Ahad dalam kategori “kes per sejuta penduduk” merupakan satu perkara yang memalukan dan mengaibkan nama baik negara.

Statistik-statistik ini boleh didapati di laman web Our World In Data. Pada hari Ahad, 23 Mei 2021, “kes harian per sejuta penduduk” untuk Malaysia dan 10 negara teratas dengan jumlah terkumpul kes Covid-19 tertinggi adalah seperti berikut:

Jumlah kes harian per sejuta penduduk pada 23 Mei 2021

10 Negara teratas – 23 Mei 2021

1. Amerika Syarikat   –    38.83

2. India         –         161.10

3. Brazil        –          168.51

4. Perancis      –         143.63

5. Turki       –         92.95

6. Rusia     –           60.49

7. UK      –               30.83

8. Itali      –             66.04

9. Jerman    –        55.42

10. Sepanyol   –          92.90

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42. Malaysia   –       215.53

Perkara ini adalah satu perkara yang telah mencalarkan maruah negara kita dan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin harus bertanggungjawab dan menjelaskan kegagalan darurat yang diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021 untuk memerangi wabak Covid-19. Beliau tidak boleh berdolak-dalik dengan menggunakan alasan bahawa orang ramai boleh menghamburkan makian dengan perkataan “bodoh” kepada beliau kerana gagal menangani wabak itu.

Muhyiddin menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020. Ketika itu, kes positif Covid-19 yang direkodkan adalah sebanyak 29 kes tanpa sebarang kematian dicatatkan.

Selepas 15 bulan Muhyiddin memegang tampuk kuasa, negara kini merekodkan 518,600 kes Covid-19 dengan 2,309 kematian.

Semasa darurat diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021, kes terkumpul jangkitan Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 138,224 kes dan 555 kematian.

Jumlah kes jangkitan Covid-19 dalam tempoh 19 minggu darurat telah meningkat lebih 2.5 kali ganda daripada jumlah kes jangkitan Covid-19 dalam tahun pertama penularan wabak itu, sementara jumlah kematian akibat virus itu dalam tempoh yang sama meningkat lebih tiga kali ganda.

Berapa ramai lagi rakyat Malaysia yang akan dijangkiti dengan Covid-19 dan mati akibat wabak itu sebelum kita benar-benar dapat melandaikan lengkung jangkitan virus berkenaan?

Namun kegagalan dalam peperangan melawan Covid-19 ini tidaklah sebesar kegagalan apabila negara kita “berjaya” menewaskan 10 negara teratas di dunia dengan jumlah terkumpul kes Covid-19 tertinggi dalam kategori “kes harian per sejuta penduduk”.

Malaysia telah gagal dalam peperangan melawan Covid-19 merangkumi lima aspek berikut:

–     Mengembalikan semula keyakinan dan kepercayaan rakyat dalam rancangan melawan Covid-19;

–    Mobilisasi nasional semua rakyat Malaysia untuk memastikan terdapat pendekatan dan strategi melibatkan “keseluruhan masyarakat”;

–    Pakej rangsangan ekonomi baharu untuk membantu golongan miskin dan memerlukan;

–    Langkah Carian-Ujian-Jejak-Asingkan-Sokongan (FTTIS) yang berkesan dan efisien untuk memastikan kita berada di hadapan lengkuk penularan wabak ini; dan

–    Pemecutan pelaksanaan Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan (PICK), terutamanya memandangkan terdapat pelbagai variasi baharu yang berbahaya.

Muhyiddin harus mengakui bahawa beliau telah gagal selama 15 bulan berdepan peperangan terhadap wabak Covid-19 dan beliau harus bersiap sedia, demi negara, bagi memulakan langkah serta strategi baharu untuk memenangi perang menentang wabak ini.

Negara berdepan dengan cabaran terbesar sejak kita mencapai kemerdekaan pada 1957, dan saya menyeru semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama atau fahaman politik, untuk sama-sama mengenepikan perbezaan peribadi serta politik dan untuk memberikan tumpuan tidak berbelah bahagi terhadap tugas untuk memenangi peperangan terhadap musuh yang tidak kelihatan ini, bagi menyelamatkan punca rezeki dan kehidupan setiap rakyat Malaysia.

Muhyiddin harus memanggil segera Persidangan Semua-Pihak Semua-NGO untuk Menyelamatkan Malaysia daripada pandemik Covid-19 dengan sebuah strategi Peperangan baharu.

Beliau juga harus memanggil segera sidang Parlimen dan membenarkan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) untuk bermesyuarat bagi memastikan kita dapat menerapkan strategi dan pendekatan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam peperangan melawan pandemik Covid-19.

Semua parti politik, tidak kira kerajaan mahupun pembangkang, harus mencapai satu konsensus baharu di mana tiada undi “tidak percaya” akan dibentangkan di Parlimen dan DUN untuk membolehkan penggal Parlimen dan DUN sedia ada dipenuhkan dari 9 Mei 2018 dan tiada pilihan raya awal akan dilaksanakan kecuali peperangan terhadap pandemik Covid-19 telah berjaya dimenangi.

Muhyiddin harus membuktikan bahawa beliau bersedia untuk meletakkan kepentingan negara mengatasi kepentingan peribadi dan partinya.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 25 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal67 – Khairy should approve the two  million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Penang to give  Yong Chee Kong a chance to redeem himself and deliver on his claim

(Tatal ke bawah untuk kenyataan versi BM)

The minister-in-charge of Covid-19 vaccination, Khairy Jamaluddin should approve the two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Penang to give businessman Yong Chee Kong a chance to redeem himself and deliver on his claim.

Yesterday, Yong clarified that the formal letter on behalf of him to the Penang state government pledging to donate two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine was written by a staff member from his company and not by Penang DAP as he had said earlier  and  he made an apology over the matter.

Yong said that if he could get the approval letter from the government for the two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, his “boss” was still willing to donate the vaccines to the people of Penang.

Let us cut the story short – give Yong a chance to redeem himself to deliver on his undertaking of getting two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for the people of Penang, as he reiterated that that the donation was a “genuine offer” by his “boss” based in Hong Kong and “If we get the approval letter (from the government), we are still willing to donate the vaccines to the people of Penang”.

If Yong  can do so, all the police reports against him could be dropped.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 25th May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal67 — Khairy patut luluskan dua juta dos vaksin Covid-19 yang ingin disumbangkan oleh Yong Chee Kong kepada Pulau Pinang untuk membolehkan beliau memenuhi tawarannya sebelum ini

Menteri yang bertanggungjawab ke atas vaksinasi Covid-19, Khairy Jamaluddin perlu memberikan kelulusan kepada dua juta dos vaksin Covid-19 yang ingin disumbangkan oleh ahli perniagaan Yong Chee Kong kepada Pulau Pinang bagi membolehkan beliau menebus maruahnya semula dan memenuhi tawarannya sebelum ini.

Semalam, Yong menjelaskan bahawa surat rasmi yang ditulis bagi pihak beliau kepada Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang yang menawarkan untuk mendermakan dua juta dos vaksin Covid-19 tersebut ditulis oleh seorang kakitangan syarikat beliau, bukannya oleh DAP Pulau Pinang seperti yang dikatakannya sebelum ini, dan beliau memohon maaf mengenai kesilapan tersebut.

Yong berkata yang sekiranya beliau boleh mendapatkan surat kelulusan daripada kerajaan untuk dua juta dos vaksin Covid-19 ini, “bos” beliau masih terbuka untuk mendermakan vaksin tersebut kepada rakyat Pulau Pinang.

Janganlah kita panjangkan lagi perkara ini — berikan ruang kepada Yong untuk menebus maruah beliau dengan membolehkan beliau untuk memenuhi tawaran dua juta dos vaksin kepada rakyat Pulau Pinang ini, memandangkan beliau telah menekankan bahawa sumbangan ini adalah “tawaran tulen” daripada “bos” beliau yang berada di Hong Kong, dan “sekiranya kami dapat surat kelulusan (daripada kerajaan), kami masih terbuka untuk menyampaikan sumbangan ini kepada rakyat Pulau Pinang”.

Sekiranya Yong berjaya mengotakan tawaran ini, semua laporan polis terhadap beliau patut digugurkan.

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 25 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal68 – We need a new Commander-in-Chief after losing  the 17-month war against Covid-19 pandemic – one whom all Malaysians have trust and confidence in his leadership and vision in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and not one who does not mind being called  “stupid”!

Malaysia needs a new Commander-in-Chief after losing the 17-month war against the Covid-19 pandemic – one whom all Malaysians have trust and confidence in his leadership and vision in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and not one who does not mind being called “stupid”!

When Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin  became the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia on March 1, 2020, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 death.

After 15 months of Muhyiddin as Prime Minister, there are now 525,889 Covid-19 cases and  over 2,350 Covid-19 deaths.

When the emergency was declared on January 11, 2021, the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases was 138,224 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.

The number of Covid-19 cases in the 19 weeks of emergency have increased by more than 2.8 times  the number of Covid-19 cases in the 12 months  of the Covid-19 pandemic, while the number of Covid-19 deaths in the 19 months of the emergency was  3.3 times the Covid-19  deaths in the 12 months of the pandemic before the emergency.

But all these failures in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic pale into insignificance, when on Sunday we beat the world’s top 10 nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in the “Daily confirmed cases per million” category as recorded  in Our World in Data i.e. United States, India, Brazil, France, Turkey,  Russia, United Kingdom, Italy Germany and Spain.   Brazil had  the highest “daily confirmed cases per million” index of 168.51 and the lowest being the Untied Kingdom with 30.83 – while Malaysia had an index of 215.53!

On Sunday, the United States of America  recorded a daily increase of 19,866  new Covid-19 cases –  a 93.5% drop from its peak of daily increase of 304,195 new  cases on January 8, 2021.

India’s daily increase of new Covid-19 cases fell to 195,815  cases on Sunday – a  53% drop from its peak of 414,433 new Covid-19 cases on 6th May which is only  17 days ago.

But  the opposite  is taking place in Malaysia – for the sixth consecutive day, we have exceeded  our  peak of 5,728 new Covid-19 cases on 30th January – with today’s increase of 7,289 new Covid-19 cases, we have exceeded the  peak on 30th January by over 27%.

Malaysia has failed miserably in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic in five key aspects, viz:

·       Maintain public trust and confidence in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic;

·       National mobilisation of Malaysians through a genuine “whole-of-society” strategy and approach;

·       A new economic stimulus package to help the poor and vulnerable;

·       Effective and efficient Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) strategy to ensure that we are always ahead of the pandemic curve; and

·       Acceleration of the national vaccination rollout especially in view of deadly Covid-19 variants.

The horrible Light Rail Transit (LRT) collision in Kuala Lumpur last night because a negligent driver drove the LRT in the wrong direction,  resulting in six passengers in critical state with  three on ventilators, raised the spectre whether such systemic failures must be expected to be “things to come” in the future in Malaysia.

The country is facing its worst moment of survival since we achieved Merdeka in 1957, and I call on all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political beliefs, to put their personal and political differences aside and to focus singly on the task to win this invisible but deadly war against the Covid-18 pandemic and to save Malaysian lives and livelihoods.

We should immediately convene an All-Party All-NGOs Conference to Save Malaysia from Covid-19 Pandemic with a new  War Plan.

We should  also convene Parliament immediately and allow the various State Assemblies to meet to ensure that we have a “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

All political parties, whether in government or opposition, should reach a new consensus that there would be no “no confidence” motion in Parliament and the State Assemblies, and that Parliament and the State Assembles should serve their full term from the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 and that there should be no earlier general election unless the war against the Covid-19 pandemic is won.

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 25th May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal69: What a contrast – Noor Hisham warning Malaysians to be prepared for the worst in the Covid-19 pandemic while the worst country in the world in the pandemic, the United States with 34 million Covid-19 cases and over 600,000 Covid-19 deaths, looking forward to the end of the pandemic!

(Tatal ke bawah untuk kenyataan versi BM)

What a contrast – the Health Director-General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah warning Malaysians to be prepared for the worst in the Covid-19 pandemic while the worst country in the world in the pandemic, the United States with 34 million Covid-19 cases and over 600,000 Covid-19 deaths, looking forward to the end of the pandemic!

This is the extent of the failure of Malaysia in the mishandling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic in the last 17 months – akin to the horrible Light Rail Transit (LRT) collision in Kuala Lumpur because a negligent driver drove the LRT in the wrong direction, resulting in three passengers suffering brain haemorrhage, a systemic failure which should never have happened.

Who would believe at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic 17 months ago that we would for 14 consecutive days have a higher daily increase of new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia, which has about nine times the population of Malaysia?

Who would believe that Malaysia, ranked No. 42 among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases , would beat 36 of the 41 nations ranked above it in the category of “confirmed cases per million”?

This is very clear from the statistics in Our World In Data for May 24, 2021 as Malaysia is worse in this category than nations like the United States, India, France, Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain, Iran, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Philippines, Iraq, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

A question many Malaysians are asking is why it is Noor Hisham, and not the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is asking Malaysians to be prepared for the worst, as if having 525,889 Covid-19 cases and 7,289 Covid-19 deaths are not worse enough?

The emergency declared on January 11, 2021 was meant to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control and not to ask Malaysians to prepared for the worst!

Malaysians do not want the Covid-19 pandemic to reach a stage where there is a daily increase of over 10,000 new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths by the scores and hundreds.

Malaysia needs a new Commander-in-Chief in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic – one whom all Malaysians have trust and confidence in his leadership and vision in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and not one who does not mind being called “stupid”!

Will Malaysia get a new Commander-in-Chief?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, May 26, 2020)

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#kerajaangagal69 — Sangat berbeza situasinya — di Malaysia, Noor Hisham memberikan amaran kepada rakyat Malaysia untuk bersedia untuk situasi terburuk sementara negara dengan situasi terburuk Covid-19 sebelum ini, AS kini sedang melihat ke arah pengakhiran wabak ini!

Sangat berbeza situasinya — di Malaysia, Noor Hisham memberikan amaran kepada rakyat Malaysia untuk bersedia untuk situasi terburuk sementara negara dengan situasi terburuk Covid-19 sebelum ini, Amerika Syarikat, yang mencatatkan lebih daripada 34 juta kes Covid-19 dan lebih daripada 600,000 kematian kini sedang melihat ke arah pengakhiran wabak ini!

Inilah tahap kegagalan negara kita dalam mengawal penularan wabak ini dalam tempoh 17 bulan yang lepas — seperti mana kejadian kemalangan LRT di Kuala Lumpur yang berlaku akibat kelalaian pemandu yang memandu keretapi ini dalam arah yang salah, sehingga tiga penumpang mengalami pendarahan di otak, satu kegagalan sistem yang tidak sepatutnya berlaku.

Siapakah yang akan percaya pada 17 bulan yang lepas yang kita akan mencatatkan lebih banyak kes harian selama 14 hari berturut-turut berbanding dengan Indonesia?

Siapakah yang akan percaya yang Malaysia, yang berada di tempat ke-42 di seluruh dunia dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi, akan mengalahkan 36 daripada 41 buah negara di atasnya dengan jumlah kes per sejuta penduduk yang lebih tinggi?

Perkara ini amat jelas sekali daripada statistik laman web Our World in Data untuk 24 Mei 2021, di mana Malaysia mempunyai kedudukan yang lebih teruk dalam kategori ini berbanding dengan negara-negara seperti Amerika Syarikat, India, Perancis, Turki, Rusia, United Kingdom, Itali, Jerman, Sepanyol, Iran, Mexico, Indonesia, Afrika Selatan, Filipina, Iraq, Pakistan dan Bangladesh.

Satu persoalan yang terlintas dalam fikiran ramai rakyat Malaysia ialah mengapa Noor Hisham, bukannya Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang meminta rakyat Malaysia untuk bersedia untuk situasi terburuk? Seakan-akan mempunyai 525,889 kes dengan 2,289 kematian tidak cukup buruk lagi.

Darurat yang diumumkan pada 11 Januari 2021 sepatutnya mengawal wabak ini dan bukannya memerlukan rakyat untuk bersedia untuk situasi terburuk!

Rakyat Malaysia tidak mahu wabak ini untuk mencapai satu tahap di mana kadar peningkatan harian berada di atas paras 10,000 kes sehari dan kadar kematian ratusan orang sehari.

Kita memerlukan pemimpin baharu untuk memimpin kita dalam peperangan melawan wabak Covid-19 ini — seorang pemimpin yang boleh dipercayai oleh semua rakyat dengan kepimpinan dan visi untuk menamatkan wabak ini, dan bukannya seorang pemimpin yang hanya mampu mengatakan “Tak apa lah nak panggil saya bodoh”!

Adakah Malaysia akan mendapat seorang pemimpin baharu?

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 26 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal70 – The Yang di Pertuan Agong should host an All-Party All-NGOs Conference on the Covid-19 Pandemic to avoid Malaysia from becoming an international  poster boy of a nation losing the war against  the Covid-19 pandemic

Before Hari Raya Aidilfirtri, Malaysians were sorely offended when the Indonesian Government used Malaysia, together with India,  in its  admonishment as  two countries Indonesians should not emulate for the mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic in its  advice to Indonesians to stay home and to take precautions about Covid-19 in the Hari Raya Aidilfitri holidays.

Now Malaysia has together with India  become the two international  poster boys of failure in the handling of Covid-19 pandemic, although this is unfair to India, as it had been on a sharp decline since its peak of daily increase of  414,422 new Covid-19 cases on May 6, which fell 53% to a daily increase of 195,815 new Covid-19 cases on 14th May 2021.

For Malaysia, however, there had been an upward surge since April 11, and in particular, in the last seven days when the Malaysian peak of daily increase of 5,728 new Covid-19 cases on 30th January was broken every day, culminating in the highest daily increase of 7,289 cases yesterday.

And the worst is yet to come as it was reported in BFM news yesterday  that data suggested that daily cases  could reach 9,000 by June 5 if there is no SOP compliance.

In the latest Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking which prides itself as a monthly ranking of the best and worst places to be during the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysia and India recorded the steepest drops.

In the latest ranking – May 2021 – Malaysia plummeted 15 spots to 35th place, a steep fall out of the top 20 among 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion.  India was worse, which fell 20 places to number 50.

Undoubtedly, a big part of the reasons for the drop in ranking for Malaysia is the slow vaccination rate and poor coverage.

Singapore, which held the top spot in the April ranking and dropped only one notch in the May report, had vaccinated 29.9% of its population while Malaysia had only managed 3.6% as of May 25.

Bloomberg’s vaccination analysis shows that, at the current rate, Malaysia will only achieve 75% immunisation coverage two years from now.

Sadly, Malaysia has a reversal of roles with the United States of America.

It is indeed an unimaginable contrast that Malaysia’s Health Director-General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah should be  warning Malaysians to be prepared for the worst in the Covid-19 pandemic when the worst country in the world in the pandemic, the United States with 34 million Covid-19  cases and over 600,000 Covid-19  deaths,  is looking forward to the end of the pandemic!

This is the extent of the failure of Malaysia  in the mishandling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic in the last 17 months,  akin to the horrible Light Rail Transit (LRT) collision in Kuala Lumpur because a negligent driver drove the LRT in the wrong direction, injuring 64  passengers with three suffering brain haemorrhage –   a systemic failure which should never  have happened.

Who would believe at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic 17 months ago that we would for the last  14 consecutive days have a higher daily increase of new  Covid-19 cases than Indonesia, which has about nine times the population of Malaysia?

Who would believe that Malaysia, ranked No. 42 among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, would beat 36 of the 41 nations  ranked above it in  the category of “confirmed cases per million”?

This is very clear from the statistics in Our World In Data for May 24, 2021 as Malaysia is worse in this category than nations like  the United States, India, France, Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain, Iran, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Philippines, Iraq, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

We are now fighting a losing battle in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic because we have failed in five important aspects of the war, viz:

·       Maintaining  public and confidence in war against the Covid-19 pandemic;

·       National mobilisation of Malaysians to ensure a genuine “whole-of-society” strategy and approach;

·       A new economic stimulus package to help the poor and vulnerable;

·       Effective and efficient Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) strategy to ensure that we are always ahead of the pandemic curve; and

·       Acceleration of the national vaccination rollout especially in view of deadly Covid-19 variants.

The Yang di Pertuan Agong should host an All-Party All-NGOs Conference on the Covid-19 Pandemic to avoid Malaysia from becoming an international  poster boy of a nation losing the war against  the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 26th May 2021)

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#kerajaangagal71 – As Tajuddin will quit when UMNO says so, does this mean that UMNO supreme council does not think Tajuddin’s conduct was insensitive enough and UMNO’s political considerations must prevail?

I am rather intrigued by the statement by the former UMNO leader and Prime Minister who said that Tajuddin Abdul Rahman will apologise for his gaffes and being insensitive at a press conference yesterday on the LRT accident but will resign as Prasarana chairperson “as soon as the Umno supreme council orders all Umno members to let go of their positions at an appropriate time”.

Does this mean that the UMNO supreme council does not think that Tajuddin’s gaffes and insensitivity at his infamous press conference was insensitive enough, and that what was more important were  UMNO supreme council’s “political considerations”  and UMNO’s political considerations must prevail?

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday May 26, 2021)

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#kerajaangagal72 –  Vaccines  may not be the silver bullet to end the Covid-19 pandemic but it is undoubtedly a game-changer as seen by the examples of USA and UK

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Malaysia is having the worst of both worlds in the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the first 12 months of the pandemic, when the United States and the European nations were the worst-hit nations, Malaysia climbed from the ranking of No. 83 in November 2020 to be ranked No. 42 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

Now, when  the game-changing impact of vaccination is causing a reversal of fortunes, as illustrated by the latest Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking (May 2021), providing a monthly snapshot of the best and worst places in the coronavirus era, Asia appears to  be losing its edge with India overtaking the United States as the  worst performing nation in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Last month’s No. 1 – Singapore – slipped in May after a new flare-up, joining other Asian economies that had been lauded for nailing the virus. Taiwan and Japan dropped out of the top 10 amid sluggish inoculation drives and resurgent cases, while some of the world’s fiercest outbreaks held down places in Southeast and South Asia.

Overall, Asia  accounted for seven of the biggest declines this month.

In contrast, the U.S. and parts of Europe have been steadily climbing up the ranking as the pandemic slowly recedes there. With vaccine protection growing, they’re reopening travel, scrapping mask mandates and looking to leave Covid-19 behind.

The U.K. jumped seven spots to 11th, and the U.S. is now at No. 13 in the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking of May 2021.

But Malaysia did not benefit from the change of fortunes in the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, we performed even worse than India and Indonesia.

India reached a peak of daily increase of 414,422 new Covid-19 cases on May 6, it had which had fallen by more than 40 per cent in the last five days in daily increase of new Covd-19 cases, while for the 15th consecutive day, Malaysia had a higher daily increase of new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia, which has about nine times the population of Malaysia!

Yesterday, Malaysia broke the record of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases with 7,478 new cases, bringing the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases to 533,367 cases and 2,432 Covid-19 deaths.

We maintain our position as the tenth in the world  in terms of  Covid-19 cases reported yesterday, except for France replacing Nepal in the first nine countries with the highest  number of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases (worldometer) , viz:

1.     India –     211,553 daily cases

2.     Brazil –                    78,714

3.     Argentina –              35,399

4.     Colombia `              23,487

5.     United States –        20,183

6.     France –                  12,646

7.     Iran    –                   10,468

8.     Turkey –                    8,736

9.     Russia –                    8,373

10. Malaysia –                  7,478

With the exception of Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, the other six nations of India, United States, France, Iran, Turkey and Russia have passed their peak but Malaysia is still on the upsurge to find the peak on the Covid-19 curve.

The Covid-19 vaccines may not be a silver bullet to  end the Covid-19 pandemic but it is undoubtedly a game-changer as seen by the example of United States and United Kingdom.

It has been reported that the New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will be bringing the city’s  mobile vaccination units to beaches and parks to  ramp up the vaccination rollout.

With the goal of making the vaccine more accessible to priority populations, New York City is expanding the number of walk-in vaccine sites for the elderly population city-wide.

This is what all the Malaysian states and districts  should emulate, and I reiterate my call to ramp up and complete the  national vaccination rollout by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16.

The Yang di Pertuan Agong should host an All-Party and All-NGOs conference to ramp up both the Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) programme and the national vaccination rollout.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday May 27, 2021)

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#kerajaangagal72 – Vaksin mungkin bukan penyelesaian mudah untuk mengakhiri wabak Covid-19 tetapi tidak dinafikan lagi ia adalah pengubahan keadaan seperti yang dapat dilihat di Amerika Syarikat dan UK

Malaysia kini teruk dilanda wabak Covid-19.

Selama 12 bulan pertama penularan Covid-19, ketika Amerika Syarikat dan negara-negara Eropah adalah negara yang paling teruk dilanda wabak itu, Malaysia naik dari kedudukan ke-83 pada November 2020 dan berada di kedudukan ke-42 antara negara-negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi.

Kini, program vaksinasi mula memperlihatkan kesannya, seperti yang digambarkan oleh Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking (Mei 2021) yang terbaru — yang mengukur prestasi negara-negara dalam mengawal pandemik ini — negara-negara di Asia telah tewas kepada India, sekaligus mengatasi Amerika Syarikat sebagai negara dengan prestasi paling buruk di dunia dalam mengawal pandemik Covid-19.

Di kedudukan nombor satu bulan lalu – Singapura – jatuh beberapa anak tangga pada Mei selepas berdepan peningkatan kes baharu Covid-19, menyertai negara-negara Asia lain yang sebelum ini diberikan pujian kerana berjaya mengawal penularan virus berkenaan. Taiwan dan Jepun jatuh dari 10 tangga teratas ekoran program vaksinasi yang berjalan perlahan ditambah peningkatan mendadak kes harian, sementara penularan wabak berkenaan semakin mengganas di beberapa negara di Asia Tenggara dan Asia Selatan.

Secara keseluruhan, Asia menyumbang tujuh penurunan terbesar bulan ini.

Sebaliknya, kedudukan AS dan sebahagian Eropah terus meningkat ketika penularan wabak itu semakin reda. Dengan pemberian vaksin yang semakin meningkat, mereka kini membenarkan perjalanan, membatalkan arahan pemakaian topeng muka dan sekaligus ingin menamat era Covid-19 di negara itu.

UK melonjak tujuh anak tangga ke tangga ke-11, dan AS pula kini berada di tangga ke-13 dalam Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking pada Mei 2021.

Pun begitu, situasi Covid-19 di Malaysia nampaknya masih tidak berubah. Prestasi kita masih buruk jika dibandingkan dengan India dan Indonesia.

India mencapai puncak kenaikan kes harian sebanyak 414,422 kes pada 6 Mei, yang mengalami penurunan lebih daripada 40 peratus dalam lima hari terakhir peningkatan kes Covid-19 baharu setiap hari, sementara untuk hari ke-15 berturut-turut, Malaysia merekodkan peningkatan kes harian Covid-19 yang lebih tinggi setiap hari berbanding Indonesia, yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk sekitar sembilan kali ganda daripada Malaysia!

Semalam, Malaysia memecahkan rekod peningkatan kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 7,478 kes, menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 533,367 kes dengan 2,432 kematian.

Kita mengekalkan kedudukan di tempat ke-10 di dunia dengan kes harian baharu Covid-19 tertinggi semalam, kecuali Perancis yang mengambil alih kedudukan Nepal:

1. India – 211,553

2. Brazil – 78,714

3. Argentina – 35,399

4. Colombia – 23,487

5. Amerika Syarikat – 20,183

6. Perancis – 12,646

7. Iran – 10,468

8. Turki – 8,736

9. Rusia – 8,373

10. Malaysia – 7,478

Kecuali Brazil, Argentina dan Colombia, enam negara lain iaitu India, Amerika Syarikat, Perancis, Iran, Turki dan Rusia telah mencapai puncaknya tetapi Malaysia masih berada di tahap yang tinggi untuk mencapai puncak jangkitan Covid-19.

Vaksin mungkin bukan penyelesaian mudah untuk mengakhiri wabak Covid-19 tetapi tidak dinafikan lagi ia adalah pengubahan keadaan seperti yang dapat dilihat di Amerika Syarikat dan UK.

Telah dilaporkan bahawa Datuk Bandar New York, Bill de Blasio akan memperluaskan program vaksinasi ke seluruh pelusuk bandar itu.

Ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk menjadikan vaksin lebih mudah diakses oleh kumpulan rentan, Bandar New York juga menambah jumlah pusat vaksinasi untuk warga emas di seluruh bandar.

Inilah yang harus dicontohi oleh semua negeri dan daerah di Malaysia, dan saya mengulangi seruan saya untuk kerajaan meningkatkan dan menyelesaikan program vaksinasi kebangsaan menjelang Hari Malaysia pada 16 September.

Patik memohon Yang di-Pertuan Agong supaya dapat mencemar duli untuk menganjurkan persidangan Semua-Pihak dan Semua-NGO untuk meningkatkan program Carian-Ujian-Jejak-Asingkan-Sokongan (FTTIS) dan program vaksinasi kebangsaan.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 27 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal73 — Full endorsement of Deputy Speaker, Azalina Othman’s reiterated call for the reconvening of Parliament

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I fully endorse the Deputy Speaker, Azalina Othman Said’s reiterated call today for the recovening of Parliament.

I also full endorse her seven-point recommendation on standing operating procedures (SOPs) for Parliament in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, viz:

To minimise Covid-19 risks: Ensure that all parliamentary staffers are vaccinated including all MPs and senators.

To minimise unwarranted “drama” in Parliament: No “no confidence” in Parliament during the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic and no early general election unless pandemic is controlled and herd immunity of at least 50 percent is achieved.

To facilitate efficient parliamentary proceedings: Invest in preparing for Virtual Parliament and speech-to-text systems. Enforce quorum requirements for in-person parliamentary proceedings.

To promote “check and balance”: Use the Special Select Committees (SSCs) as an alternative tool to establish a transparent inquisitorial process and promote executive accountability. Make such hearings accessible to the public and in real-time so that the public can participate in the process.

To ensure fair allocation of constituency funds: Allocate “Constituency Covid-19 Funds” as a bipartisan tool to reset, restart and realign different political parties towards a common goal, ie to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control.

To bridge the ever-growing political ideology gap: Work as one “Team Malaysia” to alleviate the “Confidence Crisis” which is clouding the nation.

To bridge the “trust deficit” between rakyat and administrators: Use MPs as agents of communication and public health information disseminators. Arm MPs with all the necessary health information and data on Covid-19, including myth-busters regarding the vaccine, so that MPs can help fight the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

I am impressed with Azalina’s call which qualifies her to be the Speaker of Parliament.

I am disappointed by the Speaker, Azhar Azizan Harun who has failed to uphold the rights, powers and position of Parliament, as entrenched in the Malaysian Constitution, and in particular, to be in the forefront in the defence of parliamentary democracy in Malaysia.

The Speaker should provide leadership to defend Parliament’s rights, powers and privileges from encroachment and usurpation by the Executive as the Constitution is based on the doctrine of separation of powers where no one branch of government can encroach or usurp the powers and privileges of another.

Azalina said she had a chat with the Health Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah who said he had no objection to the reconvening of Parliament.

What then is the science-based reason for the Prime Minister to continue to oppose the reconvening of Parliament?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday May 27, 2021)

#kerajaangagal73 — Sokongan penuh kepada seruan Timbalan Speaker Dewan Rakyat, Azalina Othman, supaya Parlimen dipanggil bersidang semula

Saya menyokong penuh seruan Timbalan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat, Azalina Othman Said, supaya Parlimen dipanggil bersidang semula.

Saya juga menyokong penuh ketujuh-tujuh cadangan beliau untuk prosedur operasi standard Parlimen untuk memerangi wabak Covid-19, iaitu:

Untuk mengurangkan risiko Covid-19: Pastikan semua pegawai Parlimen divaksinkan, termasuklah semua Ahli-ahli Dewan Rakyat dan Dewan Negara.

Untuk mengurangkan “drama” di Parlimen: Tidak ada sebarang usul “tidak percaya” di Parlimen semasa tempoh wabak Covid-19 dan tidak ada pilihan raya awal kecuali sekiranya wabak ini telah berjaya dikawal dan imuniti kelompok dalam kalangan sekurang-kurangnya 50 peratus populasi dicapai.

Untuk melancarkan perjalanan sidang Parlimen: Membuat persiapan secukupnya untuk persidangan Parlimen secara maya dan melabur dalam sistem ucapan-ke-teks. Kuatkuasakan kuorum untuk mesyuarat yang dihadiri secara fizikal.

Untuk menggalakkan “semak dan imbang”: Gunakan Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen (JPK) sebagai laluan alternatif untuk proses persoalan yang lebih telus untuk menggalakkan akauntabiliti dalam kerajaan. Pastikan sesi persidangan ini dapat ditonton oleh pihak secara terbuka dan dengan siaran langsung.

Memastikan terdapat pembahagian peruntukan kawasan yang adil: Peruntukkan “Dana Covid-19 Kawasan Parlimen” sebagai alat bipartisan untuk menggerakkan semua parti-parti politik ke arah satu matlamat yang sama, iaitu untuk mengawal wabak Covid-19.

Untuk merapatkan jurang ideologi politik: Bekerjasama sebagai “Pasukan Malaysia” untuk mengatasi “krisis keyakinan” yang sedang mengaburi negara.

Untuk mengurangkan defisit kepercayaan di antara rakyat dan kerajaan: Gunakan Ahli-ahli parlimen sebagai ajen komunikasi dan penyebar maklumat kesihatan awam. Perkasakan Ahli-ahli Parlimen dengan maklumat-maklumat dan data yang tepat mengenai Covid-19, termasuklah hujah-hujah untuk mengalakkan pendaftaran vaksin, supaya mereka dapat membantu usaha melawan wabak ini.

Saya kagum dengan seruan Azalina ini yang sememangnya melayakkan beliau untuk menjadi Yang Di Pertua Dewan Rakyat.

Saya kecewa dengan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat, Azhar Azizan Harun yang telah gagal untuk mempertahankan hak, kuasa, dan kedudukan Parlimen sepertimana yang telah termaktub dalam Perlembagaan negara, dan terutamanya untuk menjadi pembela untuk demokrasi berparlimen dalam negara kita.

Yang Di Pertua Dewan Rakyat sepatutnya menunjukkan kepimpinan dalam mempertahankan hak, kuasa, dan keistimewaan Parlimen daripada dihakis oleh pihak Eksekutif memandangkan Perlembagaan kita didasarkan kepada doktrin pemisahan kuasa di mana tidak ada mana-mana cabang kerajaan boleh mengganggu atau menghakis kuasa dan hak-hak cabang kerajaan yang lain.

Azalina telah mengatakan yang beliau telah berbincang dengan Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Noor Hisham Abdullah, yang dikatakan tidak mempunyai sebarang bantahan untuk memanggil semula sidang Parlimen.

Jadi, apakah lagi sebab berasaskan sains untuk Perdana Menteri terus menolak usaha untuk membuka semula sidang Parlimen?

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 27 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal76 — CITF should consider incentives to accelerate the national vaccination rollout to ensure that vaccination does not become the nation’s Achilles’ Heel in the Covid-19 Pandemic when it is definitely a game-changer although it  may not be the silver bullet to end the pandemic

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The public unhappiness, frustration and anger was palpable and tangible in the many MySejahtera technical difficulties faced by the people seeking an appointment to receive Astra Zeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday.

Although the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) has apologised for the confusion and technical hitches, it has yet to regain public trust and confidence.

The question is whether the CITF has learnt any lesson from the poor website architecture on Tuesday, as no head is rolling over the technical and system problems of the MySejahtera app.

IT professionals believed the system was not designed to handle millions of simultaneous requests.

A typical website is not the same as a registration site, which has to interact with many other sites to send and receive data.

Over a million slots were snapped in about an hour after registration opened, with people soon venting on social media about the various technical glitches they faced on the JKJAV website.

Apart from being unable to view the vaccination centres despite refreshing the website, they were blocked from submitting their applications despite entering details several times. There were also numerous complaints from applicants who said their appointment dates would not load after they clicked on their respective states.

Among the other complaints include applicants not receiving a message after completing their registration, leaving them unsure if their application was successful.

It was previously reported that RM70 million had been allocated for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme’s data integration and appointment system, a sum that coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin last month said was “prudent” for the country’s largest-ever immunisation drive.

I support the call by the DAP Kampung Tunku assemblywoman Lim Yi Wei asking Khairy to reveal the vendor, project manager, lead tech and developer behind the PICK system, provide details on the firm’s credentials as well as how much of the RM70 million had been spent so far and why the Covid-19 vaccine supply access guarantee special committee (JKJAV)’s hotline and email helpdesk were not responding to the public.

This is all the more important as Khairy’s deputy, Ahmad Amzad Hashim, earlier said the registration had gone through a stress test without any hitches.

There should be full disclosure of Covid-19 procurement contracts to boost public confidence that the government is doing its best to procure the best suppliers and contractors for key services, goods and public works and this applies to the respective costs and details of the various Covid-19 vaccines.

CITF should consider incentives to accelerate the national vaccination rollout to ensure that vaccination does not become the nation’s Achilles’ Heel in the Covid-19 Pandemic when it is definitely a game-changer although it may not be the silver bullet to end the pandemic.

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday May 28, 2021)

#kerajaangagal76 — JKJAV harus mempertimbangkan insentif untuk mempercepatkan program imunisasi kebangsaan untuk memastikan bahawa vaksinasi tidak menjadi titik lemah negara dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19 sedangkan ia sepatutnya menjadi pengubah keadaan walaupun bukan penawar ajaib

Kekecewaan dan kemarahan rakyat dapat dilihat apabila berhadapan dengan kesulitan teknikal sistem MySejahtera semasa cuba mendapatkan temu janji untuk vaksinasi AstraZeneca pada hari Selasa lepas.

Walaupun Jawatankuasa Khas Jaminan Akses Vaksin (JKJAV) telah meminta maaf atas kekeliruan dan masalah teknikal ini, pihaknya masih belum berjaya mendapatkan semula kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat.

Persoalannya ialah apakah JKJAV telah mendapatkan pengajaran dari bentuk laman web yang buruk pada hari Selasa, memandangkan belum ada sesiapa yang bertanggungjawab atas kegagalan teknikal sistem MySejahtera ini.

Golongan profesional IT di seluruh negara percaya sistem ini tidak dibina untuk menguruskan berjuta-juta permintaan secara serentak.

Laman web biasa tidak sama dengan laman pendaftaran, yang harus berinteraksi dengan banyak laman web lain untuk menghantar dan menerima data.

Lebih dari satu juta slot diedarkan kira-kira sejam selepas pendaftaran dibuka, dengan orang ramai segera meluahkan kemarahan mereka di media sosial mengenai pelbagai halangan teknikal yang mereka hadapi di laman web JKJAV.

Selain tidak dapat melihat pusat vaksinasi walaupun telah memuatkan semula laman web, mereka juga dihalang daripada menghantarkan permohonan mereka berkali-kali. Terdapat juga banyak aduan dari pemohon yang mengatakan tarikh temujanji mereka tidak muncul selepas mereka mengklik di negeri masing-masing.

Antara aduan lain termasuklah pemohon yang tidak menerima pengesahan selepas menyelesaikan pendaftaran, membuat mereka tidak pasti sama ada permohonan mereka berjaya.

Sebelum ini dilaporkan bahawa RM70 juta telah diperuntukkan untuk sistem integrasi data dan temu janji Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan, jumlah yang dikatakan oleh menteri penyelaras Khairy Jamaluddin bulan lalu sebagai “agak jimat” untuk usaha imunisasi terbesar di negara ini.

Saya menyokong seruan oleh ADUN DAP Kampung Tunku, Lim Yi Wei yang meminta Khairy mendedahkan vendor, pengurus projek, teknologi utama dan pemaju di sebalik sistem PICK, memberikan perincian mengenai bukti kelayakan syarikat itu dan berapa banyak RM70 juta telah dibelanjakan setakat ini dan mengapa talian telefon dan e-mel JKJAV tidak memberi respons kepada orang ramai.

Ini semua lebih penting kerana timbalan Khairy, Ahmad Amzad Hashim, sebelumnya mengatakan bahawa sistem pendaftaran telah melalui ujian tekanan tanpa cabaran.

Seharusnya ada pendedahan penuh mengenai kontrak perolehan Covid-19 untuk meningkatkan keyakinan masyarakat bahawa kerajaan melakukan yang terbaik untuk mendapatkan pembekal dan kontraktor terbaik untuk perkhidmatan utama, barang dan kerja awam dan ini berlaku untuk kos dan perincian masing-masing pelbagai Covid -19 vaksin.

JKJAV harus mempertimbangkan insentif untuk mempercepatkan program imunisasi kebangsaan untuk memastikan bahawa vaksinasi tidak menjadi titik lemah negara dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19 sedangkan ia sepatutnya menjadi pengubah keadaan walaupun bukanlah penawar ajaib untuk menamatkan wabak ini.

(Kenyataan media (3) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 28 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal74 — Arifin Zakaria should ask the Independent Special Committee on Emergency 2021 to consider whether it should ask the Prime Minister to end the emergency not only because the emergency is a failure but because it is not a solution to combat Covid-19 pandemic

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In response by the query by the Pakatan Harapan presidential council, the Independent Special Committee on Emergency 2021 said it has agreed to several “criteria and threshold” in reviewing whether the state of emergency should be continued or not.

However, the committee did not elaborate on the details of the criteria and threshold they agreed to.

It said: “The Independent Special Committee on Emergency 2021 has received various presentations in its series of meetings about the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic from various individuals, health experts, and other related fields.

“At this stage, the committee has, by consensus, agreed on setting several criteria and threshold in making reviews about the continued existence of the emergency or whether to end it.

“The committee will continue to meet from time to time to review the continued existence of the emergency or whether to end it.”

The chairman of the Independent Special Committee on Emergency 20201, former chief justice Tun Arifin Zakaria should ask the Independent Special Committee on Emergency 2021 to consider whether it should ask the Prime Minister to end the emergency not only because the emergency is a failure but because it is not a solution to combat Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia has become an international poster boy as a country which has failed to address the Covid-19 pandemic — four months after the declaration of emergency.

Even the Health director-general, Noor Hisham Abdullah has made international news with his warning that Malaysia must prepare for the worst in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Although Malaysia is ranked No. 41 as a nation with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases (having overtaken Morocco and Lebanon, but itself overtaken by Nepal), Malaysia is ranked No. 11 among countries with the highest daily Covid-19 cases yesterday – after India, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, United States, France, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Chile.

But Malaysia continues to overtake India, the worst performing country today in the Covid-19 pandemic, in per capita daily cases — with Malaysia’s 211.29 against India’s 165.28 for Covid-19 cases per million. In contrast, the Covid-19 cases per million for the following countries are: USA (70.71), UK (37.45), Thailand (42.87), South Korea (11.69), Vietnam (2.0) Singapore (5.54) and China (0.01).

Malaysia and India are the two worst performing countries in the recently-released May 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking — Malaysia falling 14 spots to No. 35 and India falling 20 spots to No. 50 out of 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion.

For the 16th consecutive day, Malaysia has a higher daily increase of new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia, which has almost nine times the population of Malaysia.

I don’t think there is anyone in Malaysia (including the Prime Minister and his bloated

Cabinet) will argue against the view that the emergency declared on January 11, 2021 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic was a complete flop.

In fact, it was the wrong solution for the Covid-19 pandemic, suspending Parliament and the various State Assemblies, resulting in two important failures in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, viz:

Unprecedented deficit in public trust and confidence in the government’s handling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic; and

Failure and inability of the government to launch a national mobilisation effort against the Covid-19 pandemic through an “all-of-government” and “ whole-of-society” strategy and approach.

The question is whether Ariffin Zakaria will convene a meeting of the Independent Special Committee on Emergency 2021 to consider whether asking the Prime Minister to end the emergency not only because the emergency is a failure but because it is not a solution to combat Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, May 28th 2021)

#kerajaangagal74 — Arifin Zakaria wajar mengarahkan Jawatankuasa Khas Bebas Darurat 2021 bagi membuat pertimbangan mengenai keperluan untuk meminta Perdana Menteri agar menamatkan pelaksanaan darurat bukan hanya kerana pengisytiharan darurat itu sendiri adalah suatu kegagalan, tetapi langkah itu juga sebenarnya bukanlah senjata yang terbaik untuk digunakan bagi melawan pandemik Covid-19

Dalam maklum balas kepada kenyataan Majlis Presiden Pakatan Harapan, Jawatankuasa Khas Bebas Darurat 2021 dalam satu kenyataan berkata jawatankuasa itu bersetuju dengan penetapan beberapa “kriteria dan had” dalam membuat penilaian sama ada darurat diteruskan atau ditamatkan.

Bagaimanapun, jawatankuasa itu tidak mengulas secara terperinci isu tersebut.

Jawatankuasa itu berkata: “Jawatankuasa Khas Bebas Darurat 2021 dalam siri mesyuaratnya telah menerima pelbagai pembentangan berhubung situasi semasa pandemik Covid-19 daripada kalangan individu, pakar-pakar kesihatan serta bidang-bidang yang berkaitan.

“Pada peringkat ini, Jawatankuasa Khas Bebas Darurat 2021 secara konsensus bersetuju dengan penetapan beberapa kriteria dalam membuat penilaian berhubung kewujudan berterusan darurat atau penamatannya.

“Jawatankuasa ini akan terus bermesyuarat dari masa ke semasa bagi membuat membuat penilaian berhubung kewujudan berterusan darurat atau penamatannya.”

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Khas Bebas Darurat 2021 yang juga mantan ketua hakim negara Tun Arifin Zakaria wajar mengarahkan jawatankuasa tersebut bagi membuat pertimbangan mengenai keperluan untuk meminta Perdana Menteri agar menamatkan pelaksanaan darurat bukan hanya kerana pengisytiharan darurat itu sendiri adalah suatu kegagalan, tetapi langkah itu juga sebenarnya bukanlah senjata yang terbaik untuk digunakan bagi melawan wabak Covid-19.

Malaysia telah menjadi contoh negara yang dilihat gagal membendung penularan Covid-19 – setelah empat bulan pengisytiharan darurat.

Malah, Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Noor Hisham Abdullah telah menjadi tajuk berita antarabangsa selepas beliau mengeluarkan amaran bahawa Malaysia harus bersiap sedia untuk berdepan gelombang Covid-19 terburuk.

Meskipun Malaysia berada di kedudukan ke-41 dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi (selepas memintas Maghribi dan Lubnan — dan kini dipintas oleh Nepal), Malaysia berada di kedudukan ke-11 antara negara-negara dengan kadar kes harian Covid-19 tertinggi semalam – selepas India, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Amerika Syarikat, Perancis, Rusia, Iran, Turki dan Chile.

Pun begitu, Malaysia terus memintas India — yang merupakan negara yang mempunyai prestasi terburuk dalam membendung penularan wabak tersebut — dalam kes harian Covid-19 per kapita — Malaysia melaporkan 211.29 kes baharu Covid-19 per sejuta orang berbanding 165.28 di India. Sementara kes harian Covid-19 per sejuta di negara lain adalah seperti berikut: AS (70.71), UK (37.45), Thailand (42.87), Korea Selatan (11.69), Vietnam (2.0) Singapura (5.54) and China (0.01).

Malaysia dan India adalah dua negara yang menunjukkan prestasi terburuk mengikut laporan Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking edisi Mei 2021 – Malaysia jatuh 14 anak tangga ke kedudukan ke-35 sementara India jatuh 20 anak tangga ke tangga ke-50 daripada 53 negara yang mempunyai nilai ekonomi melebihi paras AS$200 bilion.

Untuk 16 hari berturut-turut, Malaysia merekodkan kes harian Covid-19 lebih tinggi berbanding Indonesia, yang mempunyai populasi penduduk sembilan kali ganda daripada Malaysia.

Saya tidak fikir yang sesiapa pun di Malaysia (termasuk Perdana Menteri dan Kabinetnya) akan mampu menepis hujah yang mengatakan pengisytiharan darurat pada 11 Januari 2021 adalah langkah yang salah bagi membendung pandemik Covid-19 di negara ini, yang seterusnya menatijahkan dua kegagalan seperti berikut:

Defisit kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat terhadap cara kerajaan dalam mengetuai peperangan melawan Covid-19; dan

Kegagalan dan ketidakmampuan kerajaan untuk melancarkan usaha mobilasi kebangsaan bagi melawan pandemik Covid-19 menerusi penerapan strategi dan pendekatan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat”.

Persoalannya, adakah Ariffin Zakaria akan memanggil mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Khas Bebas Darurat 2021 untuk membuat penilaian mengenai keperluan untuk meminta Perdana Menteri agar menamatkan pelaksanaan darurat bukan hanya kerana pengisytiharan darurat itu sendiri adalah suatu kegagalan, tetapi langkah itu juga sebenarnya bukanlah senjata yang terbaik untuk digunakan bagi melawan pandemik Covid-19?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 20 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal75 — Arifai Tarawe acted rightly in withdrawing RM10 million suit against FMT

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The outgoing Gombak police chief Arifai Tarawe acted rightly in withdrawing the RM10 million suit against FMT for such an action is consistent with the police claim that it has nothing to hide over A. Ganapathy’s death.

Arifai, who is due to be transferred to Bukit Aman’s Integrity and Standards Compliance Department on June 21, should ensure that there will be an inquest into A. Ganapathy’s death in police custody.

In fact, Arifai should play a major role to transform the Royal Malaysia Police into a world-class police force by implementing the proposals of the Police Royal Commission 16 years ago especially to hold a public inquiry into every case of police death in custody.

Sixteen years ago in 2005, the Police Royal Commission headed by a former Chief Justice, Tun Dzaiddin and the longest-serving former IGP, Tun Hanif Omar, said in its report that it viewed with “grave concern the unacceptable high incidence of deaths in custody and the failure by the authorities to hold inquests before magistrates in most of the cases” and proposed that “inquiries must be held by a magistrate into all cases of death in custody within one month of receiving the report of death”.

Sixteen years later, the high incidence of deaths in custody is even more unacceptable.

Arifai should abolish the notion that police personnel are immune from prosecution for gross abuses of power, as Malaysia must be a nation where there is the rule of law.

I can understand Arifai’s upset feelings that his transfer had included background on Ganapathy’s case.

He said that the case and the subsequent death of S Sivabalan, who died about 70 minutes after he was arrested by Gombak police on May 20, had greatly affected the morale of his officers and family members.

He said no police officer wants any harm to come to any detainee, and he said again on record that the police did not harm any detainee under police custody.

He said having been in the public eye for years, he was used to criticism but he was really cut up when his children told him their friends said their father was a ‘bad guy’.

He said: “They know what their friends are saying isn’t true, but they still feel hurt, and as a father, I feel heartbroken seeing them sad.”

I can understand Arifai’s feelings, for this had happened to me, when I was detained for the first time under the Internal Security Act and was detained in Muar.

Guan Eng was in primary school in 1969 and was teased by his classmates as having a “bad” father, as no good person would be in detention.

But I am glad that Arifai is open to an inquest in Ganapathy’s case but such inquests should be institutionalised where every death in custody would require a public inquiry.

Deaths in custody must be viewed seriously by all the authorities concerned.

There has been another instance of custodial death – 21-year-old Surendran Shanker – and his family suspected there was foul play and injustice.

Only a public inquiry into all custodial deaths can give the families of the affected deceased in all such cases that justice had been done and there had been good governance.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 28th May 2021)

#kerajaangagal75 — Tindakan Arifai Tarawe menarik semula saman RM10 juta terhadap FMT adalah tepat

Tindakan Ketua Balai Polis Gombak yang bakal berpindah jawatan, Arifai Tarawe, dalam menarik semula saman RM10 juta terhadap FMT adalah bertepatan dengan dakwaan pihak polis yang mereka tidak ada apa-apa yang hendak disorokkan mengenai kes kematian dalam tahanan A. Ganapathy.

Arifai, yang akan dipindahkan ke Jabatan Integri dan Pematuhan Bukit Aman pada 21 Jun, patut memastikan berlakunya siasatan menyeluruh ke atas kes kematian A Ganapathy dalam tahanan polis ini.

Malah, Arifai sepatutnya memainkan peranan utama untuk mentransformasikan pasukan Polis Diraja Malaysia untuk menjadi sebuah pasukan polis yang bertaraf dunia dengan melaksanakan cadangan-cadangan dalam Laporan Suruhanjaya Penambahbaikan Pasukan Polis yang diterbitkan 16 tahun lalu, terutamanya untuk mengadakan siasatan terbuka dalam setiap kes kematian dalam tahanan polis.

Enam belas tahun yang lalu pada tahun 2005, Suruhanjaya tersebut yang diketuai oleh mantan Ketua Hakim, Tun Dzaiddin, dan Ketua Polis Negara dengan tempoh berkhidmat paling lama, Tun Hanif Omar, mengatakan dalam laporannya yang mereka memandang “kadar kematian dalam tahanan yang amat tinggi pada kadar yang tidak boleh diterima ini dan kegagalan pihak berkuasa untuk mengadakan siasatan terbuka di hadapan majistret sebagai satu perkara yang amat membimbangkan” dan mencadangkan supaya “siasatan terbuka mestilah diadakan di hadapan majistret dalam semua kes-kes sebegini dalam masa sebulan daripada menerima laporan kematian”.

Enam belas tahun kemudian, kadar kematian dalam tahanan ini menjadi semakin teruk.

Arifai perlu menghapuskan pemikiran bahawa kakitangan polis adalah imun daripada pendakwaan atas kesalahan penyalahgunaan kuasa, kerana negara kita menghormati kedaulatan undang-undang.

Saya boleh faham kekecewaan Arifai apabila pemindahan beliau ke Bukit Aman dikaitkan dengan kes Ganapathy ini.

Beliau mengatakan bahawa kes ini dan kematian S Sivabalan, yang meninggal dunia kira-kira 70 minit selepas beliau ditahan oleh pihak Polis Gombak telah menjejaskan moral pegawai-pegawai dan ahli keluarga beliau.

Beliau mengatakan bahawa tidak ada mana-mana pegawai polis yang mahu membahayakan mana-mana tahanan, dan beliau mengulangi, untuk rekod, pihak Polis tidak membahayakan mana-mana tahanan polis.

Beliau berkata, setelah lama menjadi tumpuan orang awam, beliau telah lali dikritik tetapi beliau amat kecewa apabila anak-anaknya sendiri memberitahunya yang rakan-rakan mereka mengatakan ayah mereka adalah “orang jahat”.

Beliau berkata: “Mereka tahu apa yang dikatakan rakan-rakan mereka ini tidak benar, tetapi mereka tetap terkesan, dan saya sebagai seorang ayah, berpatah hati melihat mereka sedih.”

Saya boleh faham perasaan Arifai, kerana perkara sebegini berlaku kepada saya semasa saya ditahan buat kali pertama di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri di Muar.

Guan Eng sedang berada di sekolah rendah pada tahun 1969 dan diejek oleh rakan sekelasnya kerana mempunyai seorang bapa yang “jahat”, kerana mereka berfikir tidak ada orang yang baik yang akan ditahan polis.

Tetapi saya berbesar hati apabila Arifai terbuka untuk mengadakan siasatan terbuka ke atas kes Ganapathy ini, tetapi siasatan terbuka seperti ini perlu menjadi satu norma sistem ke atas setiap kes-kes sebegini, di mana setiap kematian dalam tahanan di siasat secara terbuka.

Kejadian kematian dalam tahanan ini perlu dipandang serius oleh semua pihak berkuasa.

Terdapat satu lagi kejadian kematian dalam tahanan, yang melibatkan Surendran Shanker yang berusia 21 tahun — dan keluarga beliau mengesyaki terdapat perkara yang tidak kena dan telah berlakunya ketidakadilan.

Hanya sebuah siasatan terbuka sahaja yang boleh memberikan keadilan dan kepastian bahawa tadbir urus baik telah dijalankan kepada ahli-ahli keluarga mendiang yang terkesan dalam kes-kes sebegini.

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 28 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal77 — After Tajuddin’s sacking, who will next get sacked for Malaysia’s failure of an emergency in the 17-month war against Covid-19 pandemic compelling a total lockdown of the country?

After Tajuddin Abdul Rahman’s sacking as Prasarana Malaysia Bhd chairman, who will next get sacked for Malaysia’s failure of an emergency in the 17-month war against Covid-19 pandemic compelling a total lockdown of the country?

When Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in as Prime Minister on March 1, 2020 after the Sheraton Move conspiracy toppled the democratically-elected Pakatan Harapan government in 22 months, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero

Covid-19 deaths.

When the first full lockdown (MCO) of the country was imposed on March 18, 2020, there were a cumulative total of 790 Covid-19 cases and 2 deaths.

When emergency was declared on January 11,2021, there were a cumulative total of 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 559 Covid-19 deaths.

In the four-and-a-half months of Emergency, the number of Covid-19 cases increased about three times by 411,289 cases and the Covid-19 deaths increased by more than three-and-a-half times by 1,994 fatalities to reach a cumulative total of 549,514 Covid-19 cases and 2,552 fatalities; and the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases have almost quadrupled from 2,232 case on Jan. 11 to 8,290 cases.

Would the Prime Minister or any Minister dare to say that this is not a colossal failure which warrants the sacking of the Commander-in-Chief in charge of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic?

The Prime Minister has completely forgotten his New Year message on 31.12.2020 where he listed five priorities for the year 2021 in an integrated national recovery strategy post Covid-19.

He spoke about the priority to “uphold the country’s sovereignty and strengthen Malaysia’s position on the world stage”.

Has he realized that no Prime Minister apart from him has done more damage to Malaysia’s position on the world stage?

It is under his premiership that the Indonesian government warned Indonesians not to emulate India and Malaysia as examples in the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic when advising them to take Covid-19 precautions and stay at home during the Hari Raya Aidilfriti holidays, and this advice had been proved right, for Malaysia had a higher daily increase of new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia for the last 17 consecutive days since 12th May.

A few days ago, Malaysia was mentioned in the international media as one fo the 19 countries in the company of Argentina, Colombia, Iran, Nepal, Philippines, Pakistan, Costa Rica and South Africa which can see Covid-19 pandemic reach “crisis point” as seen in India.

We are ranked No. 40 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, although we were ranked No. 85 six months ago on November 18, 2020. But yesterday, we rank No. 11 in the world with a daily increase of 8,290 new Covid-19 cases.

In terms of new confirmed Covid-19 cases per million people yesterday, we beat India, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, UK, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam and China.

In declaring an emergency, Muhyiddin has paralysed Malaysia in two important strategies in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, viz:

Public trust and confidence in the government’s handling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic; and

A national mobilisation effort against the Covid-19 pandemic through an “all-of-government” and “ whole-of-society” strategy and approach, a strategy which I had suggested for one year.

Will Muhyiddin advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament and restore the important check-and-balance role of Parliament as provided in the Constitution now that it is as clear as the light of day that an emergency could only aggravate the devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic?

The Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Associations (FPMPAM) has urged the government to expedite Covid-19 vaccinations by simplifying the process to do so.

Its president Dr Steven Chow Kim Weng said the government should roll out the vaccine through private general practitioners (GPs) and government health clinics nationwide, rather than focusing on a handful of large vaccine administration centres (PPV).

He also said there is no need for a computerised system that does not function properly, and that the present system is too cumbersome and actually discourages people from getting vaccinated.

He said the 7,000 GPs and thousands of (government) health clinics each can easily vaccinate 50 patients daily, and together with the private hospitals achieve critical mass in a very short time.

He said: “All the government needs to do is to deliver efficiently the vaccine to all of them. This can be done by existing pharmaceutical distributors who have the capability and the capacity to do so.”

“We urge the government to do the needful immediately as it is already very late,” he said.

Will the Prime Minister now listen to the civil society and adopt an “all-of government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach after trying to resovle the Covid-19 pandemic through a government monopoly?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, May 29, 2021)

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