Health Ministry should produce SOPs for election for all  the four phases of NRP and not just for one phase and ensure that there is no Dua Darjat in their implementation

The Health Ministry should produce standard operating procedures (SOPs) for election for all the four phases of the National Recovery Plan in Malaysia and ensure that there is no Dua Darjat in their implementation instead of arbitrarily banning all physical gatherings and social events related to the Malacca state general election from Oct 25 to Nov. 27.

While responsible Malaysians are mindful of the need to reduce the risk of new Covid-19 infections, the Covid-19 pandemic should not be an excuse to ban all physical gatherings and social events which comply with the SOPs.

The excuse by the Health Minsiter, Khairy Jamaluddin that his own political party would not observe the SOPs is not only an indictment of the lawlessness of his own political party, but the double-standards of law enforcement in Malaysia.

The Health Ministry’s abuse of power under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease Act 1988 by banning all physical gatherings and social events related to the Malacca state general elections from Oct. 25 to Nov. 27 would not happen if the government does not carry out the heinous practice of Dua Darjat – one law for those who in power and another law for those out of power.

The SOPs for election for the four phases of the NRP must be observed by all political parties, whether in government or outside, and all government enforcement officials must apply the strict letter of the law.

Malaysia has become the laughing stock in the world when the de facto Law Minister cannot give an undertaking in Parliament that there would be no Dua Darjat and that the government parties would strictly abide by the SOPs.

Why should he raise it at the next Cabinet meeting and how would this ensure that his fellow Cabinet Ministers would not circumvent the SOPs for the Malacca state general election?

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

Kementerian Kesihatan perlu menyediakan SOP untuk pilihan raya bagi keempat-empat fasa PPN, bukan hanya untuk satu fasa sahaja dan memastikan tidak berlaku amalan Dua Darjat dalam pelaksanaannya

Kementerian Kesihatan perlu menyediakan prosedur operasi standard (SOP) untuk pilihan raya bagi keempat-empat fasa Pelan Pemulihan Negara (PPN) di Malaysia dan memastikan bahawa tiada amalan Dua Darjat dalam pelaksanaannya, bukannya dengan membuat keputusan membuta tuli untuk melarang sebarang majlis sosial dan perhimpuan yang berkenaan dengan pilihan raya negeri Melaka dari 25 Oktober hingga 27 November.

Meskipun rakyat Malaysia yang bertanggungjawab sentiasa sedar akan keperluan untuk mengurangkan risiko penularan jangkitan Covid-19 dalam masyarakat, wabak ini tidak seharusnya dijadikan alasan untuk melarang sebarang perhimpunan dan majlis sosial yang sepatutnya boleh diadakan dengan pematuhan SOP.

Alasan yang diberikan Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin bahawa partinya sendiri gagal mematuhi SOP bukan sahaja suatu pengakuan terhadap tindak-tanduk partinya yang melanggar undang-undang, malah menunjukkan sikap dwi-standard dalam penguatkuasaan undang-undang di Malaysia.

Penyalahgunaan kuasa oleh Menteri Kesihatan menerusi Akta Pencegahan dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit 1988 dengan melarang semua perhimpunan dan majlis sosial berkaitan pilihan raya negeri Melaka dari 25 Oktober hingga 27 November tidak akan berlaku jika kerajaan tidak mengamalkan sikap Dua Darjat — satu undang-undang khas untuk kelompok yang berkuasa dan satu set undang-undang lain untuk orang lain.

SOP pilihan raya untuk empat fasa PPN harus dipatuhi oleh semua parti politik, sama ada di dalam kerajaan mahupun di luar kerajaan, dan semua pegawai penguatkuasa harus melaksanakan tugas penguatkuasaan dengan tegas.

Malaysia telah menjadi bahan jenaka di mata masyarakat dunia apabila Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Undang-undang) tidak boleh memberikan jaminan bahawa tidak akan berlaku amalan Dua Darjat dan memastikan parti kerajaan sendiri akan mematuhi SOP yang ditetapkan.

Apa gunanya untuk beliau bangkitkan perkara ini di mesyuarat Kabinet yang akan datang dan bagaimanakah perkara ini dapat memastikan rakan sejawat beliau dalam Kabinet tidak akan cuba mencari cara untuk memintas apa-apa SOP yang ditetapkan untuk PRN Melaka ini sekiranya beliau tidak dapat memberikan jaminan pematuhan dan penguatkuasaan yang adil?

(Kenyataan Media (3) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 26 Oktober 2021)

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Mixed feelings over Covid-19 stats yesterday – glad that  number of new Covid-19  cases achieved another slow  breakthrough of 4,782 cases but concern at the still high fatality numbers of 92 daily deaths

(Versi BM)

The Covid-19 statistics yesterday is a cause for mixed feelings – glad that the number of new Covid-19 cases achieved another slow breakthrough of 4,783 cases but concern at the still high fatality numbers of 92 daily deaths.

Although the new case count is the lowest in 125 days since June 22, we are reducing the daily new cases at an agonisingly slow pace.

Indonesia, for instance, had been able to reduce its peak of 56,757 daily new Covid-19 cases on July 15 to it lowest triple-digit number of 460 Covid-19 cases yesterday – all in a matter of 102 days when Malaysia is still in four-thousand numbers and far from triple-digit figures.

When Khairy was sworn in as the Health Minister on 30th August, there were 19,268 Covid-19 cases. Can he explain why it is taking such a long time to bring down the daily new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia to triple and then double digit numbers?

On the Covid-19 fatalities, Malaysia is still on the high side as compared to other ASEAN nations.

When on Oct. 23 and 24 there were 42 and 46 Covid-19 deaths respectively, they held out hope that the Covid-19 fatality rates were being reduced, but these expectations were dashed with the record of 92 deaths (including 11 Brought-in-Dead) yesterday.

Khairy owes Malaysians an explanation for the high Covid-19 fatality rates as compared to other nations, and in particular, why there had been 5,751 BID (Brought-in-Dead) deaths.

When will BID Covid-19 deaths be a rare occurrence in Malaysia?

Can Malaysians expect the Covid-19 statistics to progressively, though agonisingly, reduce to double-digit figures for daily new cases and single-digit figures for Covid-19 deaths, and will these numbers shoot up again?

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

Bercelaru perasaan dengan statistik Covid-19 semalam — gembira melihat jumlah kes baharu menurun kepada 4,782 kes tetapi pada masa yang sama gusar dengan kadar kematian yang masih tinggi pada kadar 93 kematian semalam

Statistik Covid-19 semalam memberikan perasaan yang bercelaru kepada saya — saya gembira melihat jumlah kes baharu menurun kepada 4,782 kes tetapi pada masa yang sama gusar dengan kadar kematian yang masih tinggi pada kadar 93 kematian.

Walaupun jumlah kes baharu ini adalah kadar terendah dalam 125 hari yang lepas sejak 22 Jun, kadar kita menurunkan kes Covid-19 ini masihlah terlalu perlahan.

Indonesia misalnya, berjaya turun daripada kemuncak 56,757 kes pada 15 Julai kepada angka 460 kes semalam — hanya dalam 102 hari sedangkan kita masih lagi mencatatkan kes dalam julat empat ribu kes dan masih amat jauh untuk mencapai kes dalam julat tiga angka.

Semasa Khairy mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan pada 30 Ogos, terdapat 19,268 kes Covid-19. Bolehkah beliau menjelaskan mengapa penurunan angka kes ke julat tiga dan kemudiannya dua angka ini mengambil masa yang sebegitu lama sekali?

Dari segi kematian akibat Covid-19, Malaysia masih lagi mencatatkan kadar yang agak tinggi berbanding dengan negara-negara ASEAN yang lain.

Pada 23 dan 24 Oktober, di mana kita mencatatkan 42 dan 46 kematian akibat Covid-19, terdapat sedikit harapan yang kadar kematian ini semakin menurun, namun harapan ini dimusnahkan dengan rekod 92 kematian akibat Covid-19 (termasuklah 11 kes kematian di bawa ke hospital, BID) semalam.

Khairy perlu memberikan penjelasan mengenai kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 yang tinggi di Malaysia berbanding dengan negara lain, dan terutamanya mengapa kita mencatatkan sejumlah 5,751 kes kematian BID.

Bilakah kes kematian BID ini akan menjadi satu perkara yang jarang berlaku?

Bolehkan rakyat Malaysia melihat angka-angka ini terus menurun, walaupun dengan perlahan, kepada julat dua angka untuk kes harian dan satu angka untuk kematian akibat Covid-19 atau adakah angka-angka ini akan meningkat naik?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 26 Oktober 2021)

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Agony to see Malaysia’s slow reduction of daily new  Covid-19 cases struggling to go below the 4,000-case figure while Indonesia has been recording triple-digit numbers for  12 consecutive days

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It is an agony to see Malaysia’s slow reduction of daily new Covid-19 cases struggling to go below the 4,000-case figure while Indonesia, with more than eight times the population of Malaysia, has been recording triple-digit numbers for 12 consecutive days.

It is a dire warning of the signs of the times – the slackening competitiveness of the Malaysian economy as compared to Indonesia, and the narrowing of the gap in democratic freedoms, the rule of law and good governance between the two countries.

Malaysia has Rukun Negara and Indonesia has Pancasila – why are the two countries diverging, with Indonesia going forwards while Malaysia going backwards.

Is one reason because Pancasila in Indonesia is a living document, while more and more Malaysians, including Ministers, have refused to accept the nation-building principles of Rukun Negara?

The new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, must take serious action in view of Malaysia’s poor performance in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic as compared to Indonesia, which recorded 611 daily new Covid-19 cases and 35 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, as compared to 5,726 new Covid-19 cases and 84 deaths (including 20 Brought-in-Dead BID deaths) for Malaysia.

At the rate that the daily new Covid-19 cases are oscillating at the four-digit mid-levels, nobody would dare to predict when they would fall to three-digit numbers.

The same is also true of Covid-19 deaths, which continues at the high level of double-digit figures. When will it come down to single-digit numbers?

Also, what action has Khairy taken to rectify this serious drop in performance by the Malaysian public health system as compared to Indonesia?

Will this be reflected in the 2022 Budget which will be presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz on Friday?

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

Penantian menunggu penurunan kes Covid-19 ke paras di bawah 4,000 kes amatlah menyeksakan sedangkan Indonesia pula telah mencatatkan angka tiga digit selama 12 hari berturut-turut

Penantian menunggu penurunan kes Covid-19 ke paras di bawah 4,000 kes amatlah menyeksakan sedangkan Indonesia, yang mempunyai lapan kali ganda lebih ramai penduduk pula telah mencatatkan angka tiga digit selama 12 hari berturut-turut.

Perkara ini menjadi satu amaran keadaan semasa — daya saing Malaysia yang semakin berkurangan berbanding dengan Indonesia, dan perapatan jurang dalam kebebasan berdemokrasi, kedaulatan undang-undang, dan tadbir urus yang baik di antara dua negara ini.

Malaysia mempunyai Rukun Negara, manakala Indonesia ada Pancasila — mengapakah kedua negara ini kelihatan seperti berada di arah yang berbeza, di mana Indonesia mara ke hadapan sedangkan Malaysia mundur ke belakang?

Adakah perkara ini terjadi kerana Pancasila di Indonesia ini adalah satu dokumen yang hidup, sedangkan di Malaysia semakin ramai rakyat Malaysia, termasuklah Menteri sendiri yang enggan menerima prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa dalam Rukun Negara?

Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, perlu melihat prestasi tidak baik Malaysia berbanding dengan Indonesia dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 ini, di mana Indonesia hanya mencatatkan 611 kes baharu dengan 35 kematian akibat Covid-19 semalam, berbanding dengan 5,726 kes dan 84 kematian akibat Covid-19, termasuklah 20 kes kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID) di Malaysia.

Pada kadar semasa di mana kadar kes ini terus bergerak dalam julat pertengahan empat angka, tidak ada sesiapa pun yang berani menjangkakan bilakah angka ini akan turun ke tiga angka.

Perkara yang sama juga dilihat dari segi kematian, yang terus berada pada paras tinggi dua angka. Bilakah angka ini akan turun ke julat satu angka?

Selain itu, apakah yang telah dilakukan Khairy untuk menambah baik penurunan prestasi sistem kesihatan awam kita berbanding dengan Indonesia?

Adakah perkara ini akan ditunjukkan dalam Belanjawan 2022 yang akan dibentangkan oleh Menteri Kewangan, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz pada hari Jumaat ini?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 27 Oktober 2021)

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There will be no Operation Lalang,  Kampong Memali, 1MDB  scandal, Sheraton Move conspiracy or Malaysia’s poor performance in the Covid-19 pandemic if there is a Keluarga Malaysia

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Today 34 years ago, I was detained together with my son, Lim Guan Eng, and many other comrades in the struggle for a Malaysian Dream, including Karpal Singh and P. Patto, under the Internal Security Act (ISA). Guan Eng and I were the first to be detained and the last to be released in April 1989 under Operation Lalang.

For me it was my second ISA detention and the dragnet which started 34 years ago today, was to go on for few more days and eventually caught over 110 victims in its snares.

The Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, is now talking about Keluarga Malaysia.

There would be not only be no Operation Lalang in a Keluarga Malaysia, but many “black marks” in the history of Malaysia would not have happened if there is a Keluarga Malaysia

These “black marks” include:

1. There would be no May 13, 1969 riots if there is a Keluarga Malaysia.

In my first speech in Parliament on 23 February 1971, I called for a public inquiry into the cause of the May 13, 1969 riots and to propose a blueprint to chart Malaysia towards a just and equal, multi-racial Malaysia.

This had not been done. But half a century later, I suddenly found myself accused of causing the May 13,1969 racial riots although the authorities knew that I was never in Kuala Lumpur but was in Kota Kinabalu on that tragic day.

2. In a Keluarga Malaysia, every Malaysian would accept the five Rukun Negara principles of belief in God, loyalty to King and country, supremacy of the Constitution, the rule of law and courtesy and morality as the basic nation-building principles for Malaysia.

Unfortunately, the reverse is taking place, and the Rukun Negara naysayers are even to be found in the Cabinet today.

3. There would be no Memali Incident in November 1985 where 14 civilians and four policemen lost their lives.

4. There would be no Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF) Scandal, where Bank Bumiputera had to be bailed out for the loss of $2.5 billion in the BMF scandal and a Malay audit officer murdered in Hong Kong.

5. There would be no Bank Negara Forex Scandal where the country lost RM30 billion in the early nineties.

6. There would be no 1MDB scandal, which turned Malaysia into a kleptocracy. It is reported today that former Prime Minister Najib Razak had lodged a report with the MACC against Tim Leisner, a former Goldman Sachs senior manager who had pleaded guilty in a US court to bribing 1MDB officials and Malaysian government officials ultimately to obtain the list of Malaysian officials that Leisner had bribed.

But for almost two years, when he was Prime Minister, Najib was not bothered with the US Department of Justice’s kleptocratic litigation involving the 1MDB, where Najib was named as “Malaysian Official No. 1”.

Can Najib explain why he did not clear his name when the whole world knows that he was identified as “MO1” when he was Prime Minister?

7. Yesterday, Parliament was informed that out of the 992,764-strong civil service, 75.95% comprised Malays (754,040), 7.38% are Sabah bumiputeras (73,265), 4.75% are Sarawak bumiputeras (47,116), 6.9% are Chinese (68,542), 4.15% are Indians (41,168) and 0.87% (8,634) are others.

In a Keluarga Malaysia, the ethnic composition of the civil service will be closer to the ethnic compositon of the Malaysian population – which is 69% bumiputera, 23% Chinese, 7% Indians and 1% others.

8. In a Keluarga Malaysia, there would not be a Sheraton Move conspiracy which toppled a democratically-elected legitimate government and ushered in a backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate government.

9. If there is a Keluarga Malaysia, the country will be able to leverage on its position as the confluence of four great civilisations in the world – Malay-Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western – to maximise their virtues and values to build a world-class great nation, and Malaysia would not today be overtaken by other countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore and from our poor performance in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, may be overtaken by Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines in the future if Malaysia does not pull up its bootstraps.

Does Ismail Sabri agree that a Keluarga Malaysia will not have the above ten attributes?

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

Tidak akan ada Operasi Lalang, Peristiwa Kampung Memali, skandal 1MDB, konspirasi Langkah Sheraton atau prestasi buruk Malaysia dalam menguruskan wabak Covid-19 jika konsep Keluarga Malaysia wujud sejak dahulu lagi

Pada hari yang sama, 34 tahun yang lepas, saya ditahan bersama-sama anak lelaki saya, Lim Guan Eng, dan ramai lagi rakan seperjuangan termasuklah Karpal Singh dan P. Patto hanya kerana memperjuangkan idea Impian Malaysia. Kami ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA). Di bawah Operasi Lalang, saya dan Guan Eng adalah antara individu pertama yang ditahan tetapi yang paling terakhir dibebaskan pada bulan April 1989.

Namun untuk saya, kejadian ini sebenarnya adalah penahanan kedua saya di bawah ISA, dan penangkapan saya, genap 34 tahun yang lepas ini merupakan satu permulaan kepada penangkapan besar-besaran yang berlarutan selama beberapa hari yang membawa kepada penangkapan lebih 110 mangsa.

Kini, Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri bercakap tentang konsep Keluarga Malaysia.

Bukan sahaja Operasi Lalang ini tidak akan berlaku sekiranya konsep Keluarga Malaysia ini telah wujud sejak dahulu lagi, tetapi, “titik-titik hitam” dalam sejarah Malaysia juga akan dapat dielakkan sekiranya konsep ini telah wujud dan dijiwai sejak awal lagi.

“Titik-titik hitam” ini adalah:

1. Tidak akan berlaku rusuhan 13 Mei 1969 jika wujud Keluarga Malaysia.

Dalam ucapan pertama saya di Parlimen pada 23 Februari 1971, saya menggesa diadakan siasatan terbuka bagi mencari punca tercetusnya rusuhan 13 Mei 1969 dan mencadangkan pembentukan sebuah rangka tindakan (blueprint) bagi membawa Malaysia ke arah menjadi sebuah negara dengan penduduk berbilang kaum yang adil dan saksama.

Namun cadangan ini tidak dilaksanakan. Setengah abad kemudian, saya tiba-tiba dituduh pula sebagai pencetus rusuhan kaum 13 Mei 1969 meskipun pihak berkuasa sedar dan tahu bahawa saya tidak berada di Kuala Lumpur ketika itu, sebaliknya berada di Kota Kinabalu semasa peristiwa tragis itu tercetus.

2. Menerusi semangat Keluarga Malaysia, setiap rakyat Malaysia pasti akan menerima lima prinsip Rukun Negara, iaitu kepercayaan kepada Tuhan, kesetiaan kepada Raja dan Negara, keluhuran perlembagaan, kedaulatan undang-undang, dan kesopanan dan kesusilaan sebagai asas prinsip pembentukan negara.

Bagaimanapun, perkara yang sebaliknya pula berlaku, pihak yang membelakangi Rukun Negara boleh ditemui dalam barisan Kabinet hari ini.

3. Tidak akan berlaku Insiden Memali pada November 1985 di mana 14 orang awam dan empat pegawai polis terkorban.

4. Tidak akan berlaku skandal Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF), di mana Bank Bumiputera terpaksa diselamatkan (bail-out) selepas kerugian $2.5 bilion dalam skandal tersebut dan seorang pegawai audit Melayu dibunuh di Hong Kong.

5. Tidak akan berlaku Skandal Matawang Asing Bank Negara di mana negara kehilangan RM30 bilion pada awal 90-an.

6. Tidak akan berlaku skandal 1MDB, yang menjadikan Malaysia sebuah kleptokrasi. Hari ini dilaporkan bahawa mantan Perdana Menteri, Najib Razak telah membuat laporan terhadap mantan pengurus kanan Goldman Sachs, Tim Leissner — yang mengaku bersalah di hadapan mahkamah Amerika Syarikat kerana memberi suapan kepada pegawai 1MDB dan pegawai kerajaan Malaysia — kepada SPRM bagi mendapatkan senarai nama pegawai di Malaysia yang telah diberikan suapan oleh Leisner.

Namun untuk hampir dua tahun, semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri, Najib langsung tidak peduli dengan litigasi terhadap kes kleptokrasi yang dijalankan Jabatan Kehakiman AS membabitkan 1MDB, di mana Najib dinamakan sebagai “Malaysia Official No. 1”.

Bolehkah Najib menjelaskan mengapa beliau tidak membersihkan namanya semasa seluruh dunia maklum bahawa beliau adalah “MO1” semasa beliau masih menjawat jawatan Perdana Menteri?

7. Semalam, Parlimen dimaklumkan bahawa daripada keseluruhan 992,764 penjawat awam, 75.95% daripadanya adalah orang Melayu (754,040), 7.38% adalah Bumiputera Sabah (73,265), 4.75% adalah Bumiputera Sarawak (47,116), 6.9% adalah orang Cina (68,542), 4.15% adalah India (41,168) dan 0.87% (8,634) adalah lain-lain.

Dalam Keluarga Malaysia, komposisi etnik perkhidmatan awam harus mencerminkan komposisi etnik sebenar rakyat Malaysia — yang mana 69% daripadanya adalah Bumiputera, 23% Cina, 7% India dan 1% lain-lain.

8. Dalam Keluarga Malaysia, tidak akan berlaku konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang menggulingkan kerajaan sah yang diundi menerusi proses demokrasi dan kemudiannya membawa masuk kerajaan pintu belakang, yang tidak demokratik dan tidak sah.

9. Jika wujud Keluarga Malaysia, negara akan dapat memanfaatkan kedudukannya yang menjadi titik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat dunia — Melayu-Islam, Cina, India dan Barat — bagi menggunakan sehabis baik nilai-nilai murni yang boleh diambil daripada tamadun tersebut untuk dijadikan asas bagi membina sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, dan Malaysia juga tidak akan dipintas oleh negara-negara lain seperti Korea Selatan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand dan Singapura serta menunjukkan prestasi yang buruk dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, malah berisiko dipintas oleh Cambodia, Indonesia dan Filipina pada masa akan datang jika Malaysia tidak bangkit dari lenanya.

Adakah Ismail Sabri bersetuju, sebuah Keluarga Malaysia tidak akan membiarkan sepuluh perkara di atas berlaku?

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu 27 Oktober 2021)

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Congrats to Khairy on nomination as Vice President for 75th World Health Assembly – there is half a year for Malaysia to shake off the opprobrium of Malaysia  as one of the worst performing states in Covid-19 pandemic

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Congrats to Khairy Jamaluddin on his unanimous nomination by the Western Pacific Region (WPR) of World Health Organisation (WHO) as Vice President for the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) which will take place from May 22 to 28, 2022 in Geneva.

Khairy has now half a year to shake off the opprobrium of Malaysia as one of the worst performing states in the Covid-19 pandemic.

It is a matter of concern that the daily new Covid-19 cases has surged upwards to 6,148 cases to bring the cumulative total of 2,4489,372 and the daily Covid-19 deaths remain on the high side with 98 deaths with 32 Brought-in-Dead, taking the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths to 28,674 deaths.

At present, Malaysia is ranked No. 20 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases but the country with the least population. Leading the pack is United States with a population of 333 million with 46.5 million Covid-19 cases; India Number Two with a population of 1.4 billion with 34 million Covid-19 cases; Brazil Number Three with a population of 215 million with 21.7 million Covid-19 cases; United Kingdom No. 4 with 68 million population with 8.9 million Covid-19 cases and Russia No. 5 with a population of 146 million with 8.4 million Covid-19 cases.

But our daily Covid-19 deaths yesterday placed Malaysia as the world’s Top 15th nation for daily Covid-19 deaths, even more than Indonesia, which recorded 29 deaths, Vietnam 54 deaths, Japan 14 deaths, South Korea nine deaths.

The surge in Covid-19 cases and the high rate of Covid-19 deaths are matters of concern when the country is opening up to revive the economy and with the Election Commission setting Nov. 8 and 20 as Nomination and Polling Days for the Malacca state general election.

The Health Ministry and the Election Commission should consult with all interested parties on the SOPs to be applied to strike a proper balance between reviving the economy and conducting a free, fair and clean general election with the objective of winning the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

Tahniah kepada Khairy atas pencalonan sebagai Naib Presiden ke-75 Perhimpunan Kesihatan Sedunia — ada setengah tahun untuk Malaysia memulihkan imej negara yang dilihat sebagai negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan Covid-19

Tahniah kepada Khairy atas pencalonan sebulat suara oleh Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) Kawasan Serantau Pasifik Barat (WPR) untuk beliau sebagai Naib Presiden ke-75 Perhimpunan Kesihatan Sedunia yang akan berlangsung di antara 22 hingga 28 Mei 2022 di Geneva.

Khairy kini ada setengah tahun untuk Malaysia memulihkan imej negara yang dilihat sebagai negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan Covid-19.

Amat membimbangkan apabila angka kes harian ini telah meningkat kepada 6,148 kes, membawa kepada sejumlah 2,448,372 kes dan kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 masih kekal tinggi dengan 98 kematian, termasuklah 32 kes BID, membawa jumlah keseluruhan korban akibat Covid-19 kepada 28,674 kematian.

Setakat ini, Malaysia berada di tempat ke-20 dengan jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi di dunia dan kita adalah negara dengan populasi terkecil dalam senarai ini. Senarai ini diketuai oleh Amerika Syarikat yang mempunyai 333 juta penduduk dengan 46.5 juta kes Covid-19; tempat kedua, India, 1.4 bilion penduduk dengan 34 juta kes; tempat ketiga, Brazil dengan populasi 215 juta dan 21.7 juta kes; United Kingdom di tempat keempat dengan 68 juta penduduk dan 8.9 juta kes Covid-19, dan Rusia di tempat kelima dengan 146 juta penduduk dan 8.4 juta kes Covid-19.

Namun, kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 semalam meletakkan Malaysia dalam kalangan 15 negara teratas di dunia, melebihi Indonesia yang mencatatkan 29 kematian; Vietnam 54 kematian; Jepun 14 kematian; dan Korea Selatan dengan sembilan kematian.

Peningkatan kes dan kadar kematian ini adalah satu perkara yang membimbangkan apabila negara kita sedang berada dalam proses pembukaan semula untuk menghidupkan semula ekonomi dengan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya menetapkan 8 dan 20 November sebagai tarikh penamaan calon dan hari mengundi untuk Pilihan Raya Negeri Melaka.

Kementerian Kesihatan dan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya perlu mendapatkan pendapat semua pihak mengenai SOP yang dilaksanakan untuk menyeimbangkan pembukaan semula ekonomi, pelaksanaan pilihan raya yang bebas, adil, dan bersih, dan objektif memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis 28 Oktober 2021)

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Will, and how soon, the largest 2022 Budget in nation’s history, undo the ravages to the lives and livelihoods of Malaysians in the past year as one of  the worst performing nations in the world in Covid-19 pandemic

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The Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Aziz, will present the 2022 Budget, expected to be the largest budget in the nation’s history, in Parliament this afternoon.

The immediate question is: Will, and how soon, the largest 2022 Budget in nation’s history, undo the ravages to the lives and livelihoods of Malaysians in the past year as one of the worst performing nations in the world in Covid-19 pandemic?

The RM322 billion 2021 Budget, the biggest ever for Malaysia, was entitled “Resilient as One, Together We Triumph”, failed to help the country with the economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic.

When the 2021 Budget was presented by Tengku Zafrul in the Muhyiddin Government on Nov. 6, 2020, there were cumulative totals of 38,189 Covid-19 cases and 279 Covid-19 deaths. Yesterday, the cumulative totals have shot up to 2,454,719 Covid-19 cases and 28,769 Covid-19 deaths – an increase of over 64 times the Covid-19 cases and over 103 times the Covid-19 deaths between the presentation of the 2021 and 2022 Budgets!

When the Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau on Sept. 13, 2021, there were cumulative totals of 1,995,7721 Covid-19 cases and 21,124 Covid-19 deaths.

This means that from the presentation of the 2021 Budget on Nov. 6, 2020 to the signing of the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021, there was an increase of some 50% of the Covid-19 cases and an increase of some 75% of the Covid-19 deaths, while during the period of 45 days between the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021 and the presentation of the 2022 Budget on 29th Oct. 2021, there was an increase of 1.2% in the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases and an increase of 1.4% in the increase of the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths.

This is the initial justification for the CSR MOU – to stop the dizzying increase of cumulative totals of Covid-19 cases from five-digit to four-digit numbers and daily Covid-19 deaths from over 400 deaths daily to below 100 deaths daily.

But can we return to the pre-Emergency Day on January 11, 2021 when we had daily new cases of 2,234 Covid-19 cases and 4 daily Covid-19 deaths, or better still, return to presentation of the 2021 Budget on November 6, 2020 when we had daily new cases of 1,755 Covid-19 cases and 2 daily Covid-19 deaths, will be the test of the 2022 Budget!

Yesterday, we recorded daily 6,377 new Covid-19 cases and 95 daily Covid-19 deaths (including 24 Brought-in-Dead). Can the 2022 Budget take Malaysia to double-digit daily new Covid-19 cases and single-digit Covid-19 deaths?

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

Adakah Belanjawan 2022 yang terbesar dalam sejarah negara, akan memulihkan kehidupan dan mata pencarian rakyat Malaysia yang terjejas sejak tahun lepas dengan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 dan berapa lamakah masa yang akan diambil untuk melihat pemulihan ini

Menteri Kewangan, Tengku Zafrul Aziz akan membentangkan Belanjawan 2022, yang dijangka akan menjadi belanjawan terbesar dalam sejarah negara, di Parlimen petang ini.

Persoalannya: Adakah Belanjawan 2022 yang terbesar dalam sejarah negara, akan memulihkan kehidupan dan mata pencarian rakyat Malaysia yang terjejas sejak tahun lepas dengan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 dan berapa lamakah masa yang akan diambil untuk melihat pemulihan ini?

Belanjawan 2021 memperuntukkan RM322 bilion, yang dianggap sebagai belanjawan terbesar dalam sejarah negara ketika itu, dengan slogan “Teguh Kita, Menang Bersama”, gagal untuk membawa keluar negara daripada kemelut ekonomi negara yang teruk terjejas akibat penularan wabak Covid-19.

Semasa Belanjawan 2021 dibentangkan oleh Tengku Zafrul di bawah kerajaan Muhyiddin pada 6 November 2020, negara merekodkan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 sebanyak 38,189 dengan 279 kematian. Semalam, jumlah tersebut masing-masing meningkat kepada 2,454,719 dan 28,769 — peningkatan lebih 64 kali ganda untuk kes Covid-19 dan lebih 103 kali ganda untuk kes kematian dalam tempoh antara pembentangan Belanjawan 2021 dan Belanjawan 2022!

Semasa Memorandum Persefahaman (MoU) Kepercayaan-Perbekalan-Reformasi (CSR) ditandatangani antara Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau pada 13 September 2021, terdapat 1,995,772 kes terkumpul Covid-19 dengan 21,124 kematian.

Ini bermakna, di antara pembentangan Belanjawan 2021 pada 6 November dan peristiwa tandatangan MOU CSR pada 13 September 2021, berlaku peningkatan kira-kira 50% jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 dan peningkatan kira-kira 75% untuk kes kematian akibat wabak itu, sementara untuk tempoh 45 hari antara hari MOU CSR ditandatangani kedua-dua pihak pada 13 September 2021 dan pembentangan Belanjawan 2022 pada 29 Oktober 2021, berlaku peningkatan sebanyak 1.2% dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 dan peningkatan sebanyak 1.4% dalam jumlah keseluruhan kematian akibat wabak itu.

Ini adalah satu sebab mengapa MOU CSR diperlukan — untuk mengurangkan peningkatan mendadak dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 dari julat lima angka kepada julat empat angka dan untuk menurunkan angka kematian akibat wabak itu dari lebih 400 sehari ke bawah paras 100 kematian sehari.

Pun begitu, adakah kita mampu untuk kembali ke zaman pra-Darurat pada 11 Januari 2021 di mana kita merekodkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 sebanyak 2,234 dengan empat kematian, atau lebih baik lagi, kembali ke masa Belanjawan 2021 dibentangkan pada 6 November 2020 di mana kita merekodkan 1,755 kes Covid-19 dengan 2 kematian, akan menjadi ujian kepada Belanjawan 2022 ini!

Semalam, kita merekodkan 6,377 kes baharu Covid-19 dengan 95 kematian (termasuk 24 kematian di luar hospital, BID). Mampukah Belanjawan 2022 ini menurunkan jumlah kes harian Covid-19 kepada julat dua angka dan jumlah kes kematian harian akibat wabak itu kepada julat satu angka?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 29 Oktober 2021)

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As 2021 Budget was a catastrophe in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, the 2022 Budget must prove to be otherwise

I got a shock when I opened the Economic Report 2022, the key Budget 2022 paper presented by the Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Aziz, to Members of Parliament yesterday.

I could not believe it when I read the first paragraph of the foreword by the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri which said:

“The Covid-19 virus, which began in March 2020, has continued to disrupt lives and livelihoods through waves of new infections globally, necessitating the reinstatement of containment measures to prevent its spread. Malaysia has been no exception.   The Government  had to declare a temporary state of emergency, followed by a nationwide lockdown in the middle of the year. The objectives of these measures centred around saving the rakyat’s lives and relieving the pressure on our public health system. The enforcement of various control measures such as domestic and international travel restrictions as well as the prohibition of operations for contact-intensive services  industries have affected most economic sectors. Consequently, the GDP growth forecast for 2021 was revised downwards to between 3% and 4%.”

Firstly, it is not true that the Covid-19 pandemic started in March 2020. By March 2020, Malaysia was already suffering the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit Malaysia on January 25 and lasted until February 15, 2020. There was no deaths and the cumulative total was 22 cases.

The second wave  commenced on February  27 during the Sheraton Move conspiracy which toppled a democratically-elected government and ushered in a  backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate government, and lasted until 30th June 2020 bringing the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases to 8,639  cases and Covid-19 deaths to 164 deaths, with  two daily new cases and zero Covid-19  daily deaths.

The third Covid-19 wave was caused by the Muhyiddin’s government attempt to wrest power in Sabah State leading to the Sabah state elections in September (on Sabah Polling Day on Sept. 26, there were 82 daily new cases and zero death), which proved  to be one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world lasting for over a year with no signs of ending.

Secondly, the “temporary state of emergency” from 11th January 2021 to August failed to save Malaysian lives and livelihoods as seen by the grim Covid-19 pandemic statistics – on Jan. 11 there were cumulative totals of 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 deaths, which shot exponentially to 2,460,809 Covid-19 cases and 28,832 deaths when Tengku Zafrul presented his 2022 budget in Parliament yesterday.

I am totally at a loss of words how an increase of  2,322,588 cases and 28,277 deaths– an exponential increase of 18 times the number of cases and 52 times the number of Covid-19 deaths  – could be described as a success.

Malaysians must not be in denial or suffer from the denial syndrome and dare to face up to the excruciating truth that Malaysia, after being lauded internationally in the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, had for over a year been one of the worst performing nations in the world in the  Covid-19 pandemic.

One of the acid tests of the 2022 Budget is whether it could end one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world in Malaysia for over a year.  The 2022 must not be a catastrophe like the 2021 Budget in the war against the  Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 30th October 2021)

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Hope that  2021 Deepavali will mark the beginning of  Malaysia’s victory over one of the world’s longest Covid-19 wave in Malaysia

The Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Tengku Azz presented the 2021 Budget in Parliament on Nov. 6, 2020 entitled “Resilient as One, Together we Triumph” with the largest budget of  RM322 billion to help the country cope with the economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic, but it was of no help when the country plunged into hellish conditions when an emergency was declared on January 11, 2021.

This is clear from the fact that when the emergency was declared on  11th January 2021, the cumulative totals of 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 deaths shot exponentially to 2,460,809 Covid-19 cases and 28,832 deaths  yesterday when Tengku Zafrul presented his 2022 budget in Parliament.

The 2022 Budget is bigger than the 2021 Budget – as it is now RM332.1 billion which is RM10.1 billion more than the previous budget. But will it be as catastrophic as the 2021 budget which saw Malaysia lost control of the Covid-19 pandemic, and became one of the worst performing nations in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic, worse than all the ASEAN nations and even worst  than Indonesia, India and China, the three countries whose great civilisations meet in confluence in Malaysia.

This  was why the Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau on Sept. 13, 2021, for we want the dizzying increase of daily new Covid-19 cases and  daily Covid-19 deaths to  be replaced with much slower figures.

This has been achieved but I like to see greater speed in the reduction of the daily new Covid-19 cases to double-digit figures, the reduction of daily Covid-19 deaths to single-digit figures and the Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths become a rare phenomenon,

I would think that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is over and I hope that 2022 Deepavali will mark the beginning of light over darkness in the Covid-19 pandemic, with Malaysia winning the war against one of the world’s longest  Covid-19 waves in Malaysia.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the pre-Deepavali distribution of food baskets at Taman Universiti, Gelang Patah on Saturday, 30th October 2021 at 10.30 am)

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Health Ministry should not just give empty warnings but should punish the two former Prime Ministers, Najib and Muhyiddin for defying the ban on physical election activities in Malacca  through “disguised” programmes or scrap the ban and invite Election Commission and all political parties on the SOPs that should be followed

The Health Ministry should not just give empty warnings but should punish the two former Prime Ministers, Najib Razak and Muhyiddin Yassin, for flouting its ban against physical election campaigns in Malacca through various forms of “disguised” activities.

What is the use of the Health Ministry having officers in the state monitoring activities in Malacca towards the state election, if there is going to be a new form of Dua Darjat – one for the ruling parties and the other for the opposition?

Although the ban on all physical gatherings and social events related to the Malacca State Elections is imposed from Oct. 25 to Nov. 27, several political leaders from the ruling parties have been seen out and about in Malacca, including meeting the public in the last few days.

Among them were the two former Prime Ministers, Najib Razak and Muhyiddin Yassin, who had been engaged in programmes that involved physical meet-and-greet with the public – circumventing the ban by the Health Ministry.

If Najib Razak is allowed circumvent the ban or to get away with his defiance for his visits to a fisherfolks’ village in Tanjung Kling and a wet market in Malacca, and Muhyiddin allowed to go scotfree  for his visit to two Gerai Prihatin Rakyat initiatives of Bersatu in Malacca, what is the purpose of the Health Ministry ban under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act except to hinder Opposition election campaigns?

Either the Health Ministry take immediate action against Najib and Muhyiddin or it should scrap the ban and discuss with all political parties and  the Election Commission on  the SOPs which should be used to ensure free, fair and clean elections as well as to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 31st October 2021)

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Most meaningful  to celebrate Deepavali on Thursday as yesterday’s 44 daily Covid-19 death figures lowest in more than five months and BID Covid-19 deaths becoming a rare phenomenon

It is most meaningful to celebrate Deepavali on Thursday as yesterday’s 44 daily Covid-19 death figure is  the lowest in more than five months and Brought-in-DEAD (BID) Covid-19 deaths have been reduced to four, a step before BID Covid-19 deaths become a rare phenomenon in Malaysia.

Light is prevailing over darkness in the Covid-19 war, as the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau on Sept. 13 had intended.

In the last five days, the number of  daily new Covid-19 cases have been stalling, refusing to come down  below 4,782 daily new Covid-19 cases  recorded on 25th October, but all signs point to a further reduction in the Covid-19 statistics – where daily new Covid-19 cases   continue to fall to triple-digit and then  double-digit figures and daily Covid-19 deaths fall  to single-digit number.

If Indonesia can in 30 consecutive days maintain double-digit figure for daily new Covid-19 cases,  and falling from 50 daily deaths to 27 daily deaths yesterday (with daily Covid-19 deaths in the last  26 consecutive days less than the Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia despite having a larger population), it is time for Malaysia to pull itself up by the bootstraps and do better in the  war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Let us achieve new milestones in daily new Covid-19 cases, daily Covid-19 deaths and BID Covid-19 deaths by Deepavali on Thursday, and it is my further hope that we can achieve triple-digit figure for daily new Covid-19 cases and single-digit for daily Covid-19 with BID Covid-19 deaths no more a daily occurrence by the first Hundred Days of Khairy Jamaluddin as the Health Minister on December 7, 2021.

Indonesia yesterday had 620  daily new Covid-19 cases and 27 Covid-19 deaths, India fell to 12,541 daily new Covid-19 cases and 440 Covid-19 deaths (one per cent of its daily peak of 414,433 Covid-19 deaths on May 6, 2021) and China recorded 78 daily new Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 deaths, but  Malaysia recorded 5,854 daily new Covid-19 cases and 44 Covid-19 deaths.

It is time for Malaysia to perform better than Indonesia, India and China in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

All Malaysians, regardless of whether they are Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Orang Asli, will rejoice when Malaysia wins the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, October 31, 2021)

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Dec. 30 should  be named the National  Memorial  Day for the Covid-19 dead in Malaysia

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Malaysia has lost an eminent son, James Masing, Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister in the Covid-19 pandemic.

James Masing was a leading Dayak leader who had distinguished himself in his service to his community, state and nation.

His loss is a great and irreplaceable one.

The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed over 28,000 lives in the past 22 months, with 5,839 Brought-in-Dead (BID).

Malaysia Covid-19 fatality rate is the highest in ASEAN and East Asian regions, with death per capita of 876 deaths per 1 million population.

Over 43% of the 28,912 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the 64 days after Khairy Jamaluddin had taken his oath as Health Minister on August 30.

We must cut down the Covid-19 death rate in Malaysia and make the Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 deaths (5,846 BID so far) a rare phenomenon.

We are moving in this direction in the last two days, when Malaysia recorded 44 deaths (with four BID deaths) on Oct. 30 and 36 Covid-19 deaths (with seven BID deaths) yesterday.

A team of volunteers have created a website as a memorial to those who have lost their battles to the Covid-19 in Malaysia – https://c19memorial.my/.

As the website noted, there is Kuala Lumpur a Tugu Negara – the National Monument – dedicated to remembering the 11,000 people who died during the World World I, World War II and the 12-year Malayan Emergency.

Since Covid-19 hit Malaysian shores on January 24, and claimed its first life in March 2020, 28,912 have died of Covid-19 (including 5,846 Brought-in-Dead cases).

As the C19 memorial website noted: “They are not just numbers. Those who have fallen are brothers, sisters, mothers and daughters, sons and fathers, aunts, grandfathers, friends – dearly loved individuals. This is to remember them, their names, their faces, their lives. Information published here is collated from the public domain (through news article and public social media posts), and through submissions and testimonials from the public.”

Browsing through the website, one is reminded of the tens of thousands of tragedies of the 22-month Covid-19 pandemic, the enormous price Malaysia has paid in human toll, that apart from James Masing, we have lost former Sabah Governor and Chief Minister Sankaran Dandai, former deputy minister Lajim Ukin and Guan Dee Koh Hoi, former Chief Secretary to government Ahmad Sarji Ahmad Hamid, former State Assemblymen Kee Phaik Chin (Gerakan), Wan Ismail Wan Jusoh (PAS) and Ismail Kijo (UMNO), former Pakatan Harapan Youth leader Shazni Munir Mohd Ithnin, property developer Teo Chiang Quan, surveyor Michael Gek Thuan Peng, former police officials Ramlan Abdul Razak and Baharom Othman, lawyers like Amir Askee Meor Nordin, Ghazi Ishak and Lim Fung Yin, medical professionals like Dr. Shariffudin Ramli and Dr. Rohit Nambier Seseadharan Nambiar, artist Nasir Nadzri, violinist Hashim Ariffin, singer Joyce Leelyn, pastor David Cheng and drummer Chong Hai Liang – each a human tragedy by itself that could have been avoided.

Let us remember the Covid-19 dead once a year, with the Prime Minister presiding over the ceremonies.

I have suggested Decemberr 30 year, for I expect the Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia to taper off by that date.

In 1918, the Spanish Flu pandemic killed 34,644 people in Malaysia. The Malaysian government, with the co-operation of the people, must ensure that the toll from Covid-19 pandemic is not more than the 1918 Spanish Flu.

For 31 days, Indonesia had recorded triple-digit daily new Covid-19 cases with 523 new cases yesterday and for two consecutive weeks, it had recorded double-digit daily Covid-19 deaths with 17 Covid-19 deaths yesterday.

Yesterday, India fell to 12,874 daily new Covid-19 cases and 251 daily Covid-19 deaths (less than one per cent of its daily peak of 414,433 Covid-19 deaths on May 6, 2021) and China recorded 71 daily new Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 deaths, but Malaysia recorded 4,979 daily new Covid-19 cases and 36 Covid-19 deaths.

It is time for Malaysia to perform better than Indonesia, India and China in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 1st November 2021)

30 Disember harus dinamakan sebagai Hari Memorial Kebangsaan bagi memperingati mangsa korban akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia

Malaysia kehilangan seorang tokoh yang amat dihormati, Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak, James Masing akibat jangkitan Covid-19.

James Masing adalah pemimpin Dayak yang telah banyak berbakti untuk masyarakatnya, negeri dan juga negara.

Kehilangan beliau tidak ada galang gantinya.

Wabak Covid-19 telah mengorbankan 28,000 nyawa sejak 22 bulan lalu, dengan 5,839 daripadanya didapati mati di luar fasiliti (BID).

Kadar kematian Covid-19 di Malaysia adalah paling tinggi di rantau ASEAN dan Asia Timur, dengan kadar kematian sebanyak 876 per sejuta penduduk.

Lebih 43% daripada 28,912 kematian akibat Covid-19 telah direkodkan dalam masa 64 hari selepas Khairy Jamaluddin mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan pada 30 Ogos.

Kita harus menurunkan kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia selain kematian akibat wabak itu yang berlaku di luar fasiliti (5,846 setakat ini).

Kita sedang menyaksikan penurunan kadar kematian sejak dua hari lalu — Malaysia merekodkan 44 kematian (dengan empat daripadanya BID) pada 30 Oktober dan 36 kematian akibat wabak itu (dengan tujuh daripadanya BID) semalam.

Sebuah pasukan sukarelawan telah mewujudkan sebuah laman web memorial untuk memperingati mereka yang telah terkorban dalam berjuang melawan virus Covid-19 di Malaysia – https://c19memorial.my/.

Seperti yang dinyatakan laman web tersebut, terdapat Tugu Negara di Kuala Lumpur yang didedikasikan untuk memperingati 11,000 orang yang terkorban semasa Perang Dunia Pertama, Perang Dunia Kedua dan Darurat selama 12 tahun.

Sejak Covid-19 melanda negara pada 24 Januari, dan menyebabkan kematian pertama pada Mac 2020, 28,912 telah terkorban akibat wabak itu (termasuk 5,846 kes BID).

Seperti yang dinyatakan laman web memorial C19 tersebut: 21,000 itu bukan sekadar angka. Setiap angka tersebut adalah ibu, bapa, anak, datuk, sahabat, dan individu yang amat disayangi. Perginya setiap nyawa itu meninggalkan pelbagai kenangan yang akan sarat dibawa dan menghantui mereka yang ditinggalkan. Memorial ini dibangunkan agar nama, wajah, serta kisah-kisah sepanjang kehidupan mereka akan dapat terus dikongsi dan terpahat selamanya dalam memori. Maklumat yang disiarkan dalam memorial ini dikumpul daripada carian awam (laporan media tempatan dan hantaran media sosial kepada awam), serta maklumat yang dikemukakan oleh ahli keluarga dan orang awam kepada kami.

Laman web tersebut mengingatkan kita tentang puluhan ribu nyawa yang terkorban akibat wabak Covid-19 yang berpanjangan selama 22 bulan, Malaysia telah kehilangan banyak nyawa yang tak ternilai harganya, selain James Masing, kita telah kehilangan mantan Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sabah dan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Sankaran Dandai, Bekas timbalan menteri, Lajim Ukin dan Guan Dee Koh Hoi, mantan ketua setiausaha kerajaan Ahmad Sarji Ahmad Hamid, mantan Adun Kee Phaik Chin, Wan Ismail Wan Jusoh (PAS) dan Ismail Kijo (UMNO), bekas ketua pemuda Pakatan Harapan Shazni Munir Mohd Ithnin, pemaju perumahan Teo Chiang Quan, juruukur, Michael Gek Thuan Peng, mantan pegawai polis Ramlan Abdul Razak dan Baharom Othman, peguam seperti Amir Askee Meor Nordin, Ghazi Ishak dan Lim Fung Yin, professional perubatan seperti Dr. Shariffudin Ramli dan Dr. Rohit Nambier Seseadharan Nambiar, pelukis, Nasir Nadzri, pemain violin,Hashim Ariffin, penyanyi Joyce Leelyn, paderi David Cheng dan pemain drum Chong Hai Liang – tragedi yang sepatutnya boleh dielakkan.

Marilah kita memperingati mereka yang terkorban akibat Covid-19 sekali setiap tahun, dengan Perdana Menteri mengetuai majlis-majlis tersebut.

Saya mencadangkan tarikh 30 November itu kerana saya menjangkakan yang kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia bakal menurun menjelang hari tersebut.

Pada 1918 wabak Selsema Sepanyol telah membunuh 34,644 orang di Malaysia, kerajaan Malaysia, dengan kerjasama semua rakyat, harus memastikan jumlah kematian akibat wabak Covid-19 di Malaysia tidak melebihi jumlah kematian akibat Selsema Sepanyol pada 1918.

Selama 31 hari, Indonesia merekodkan kes baharu Covid-19 pada julat tiga angka dengan 523 kes baharu semalam dan untuk dua minggu berturut-turut, negara jiran itu telah merekodkan kes kematian akibat Covid pada julat dua angka dengan 17 kematian akibat wabak itu dicatatkan semalam.

Semalam, kes harian baharu di India telah menurun kepada 12,874 kes dan 251 kematian baharu (kurang 1 peratus daripada puncak harian 414,433 kematian pada 6 Mei 2021) dan China merekodkan 71 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan sifat kematian akibat wabak itu, tetapi Malaysia merekodkan 4,979 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 36 kematian.

Sudah tiba masanya untuk Malaysia menunjukkan prestasi yang lebih baik berbanding Indonesia, India dan China dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 1 November 2021)

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PKR fined RM10,000 for  crowdless ceramah is height of idiocy

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The RM 10,000 fine on PKR for the crowdless ceramah in Paya Rumput, Melaka last night is the height of idiocy in the Covid-19 pandemic for the forthcoming Malacca state general election.

I would have thought Malacca PKR should be commended for coming up with a very novel way of electioneering in the forthcoming general election in Malacca which takes into account the paramount consideration not to worsen the Covid-19 situation and yet further the objective of free, fair and clean election – but instead, there was a $10,000 fine.

There is a ban on physical election campaigns and social events which involve physical contacts with the voters – but it immediately ran into trouble with the Dua Darjat phenomenon repeating itself as action had not been taken against the two former Prime Ministers Najib Razak and Muhyiddin Yassin, who had flouted the ban through “disguised” activities in Malacca recently.

The ban announced by the Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, on Oct. 24 is not a well-considered and practical one, and should be cancelled immediately and replaced by SOPs especially tailored for the Malac ca state general elections – and this is why I have called for an immediate meeting of the Election Commission, the Ministry of Health and all interested political parties and NGOs on the matter.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is doing itself and its image no good when it failed to take action against former Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, following Bersih’s complaint that Bersatu’s Gerai Prihatin Rakyat, which sells sundry goods at cheap prices, was another “vote-buying” tactics and an election offence.

No wonder Malaysia is set for a plunge in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2021 when it is announced in January next year.

Will MACC redeem itself?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 1st November 2021)

PKR didenda RM10,000 untuk ceramah tanpa hadirin adalah satu kemuncak kebodohan

Denda RM10,000 kepada PKR kerana mengadakah ceramah tanpa kehadiran fizikal di Paya Rumput, Melaka, semalam adalah salah satu contoh kemuncak kebodohan dalam keadaan pandemik Covid-19 untuk Pilihan Raya Negeri Melaka yang akan datang.

Saya fikirkan, PKR Melaka sepatutnya dipuji kerana menggunakan cara yang unik untuk berkempen dalam PRN ini yang mengambil kira kepentingan untuk tidak memburukkan lagi keadaan Covid-19 dalam negara dan pada masa yang sama meneruskan objektif untuk mencapai satu pilihan raya yang bebas, adil, dan bersih — sebaliknya mereka dikenakan denda RM10,000.

Terdapat larangan untuk kempen dan acara sosial pilihan raya yang melibatkan aktiviti fizikal dengan pengundi — tetapi perkara ini sepantas kilat menjadi ulangan fenomena Dua Darjat di mana tindakan tidak diambil terhadap dua orang mantan Perdana Menteri, Najib Razak dan Muhyiddin Yassin, yang telah mengingkari larangan ini dengan aktiviti-aktiviti “secara bersorok” di Melaka baru-baru ini.

Larangan yang diumumkan oleh Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin, pada 24 Oktober adalah satu larangan yang tidak dipertimbangkan dengan baik dan tidak praktikal. Larangan ini perlu dibatalkan segera dan digantikan dengan SOP yang dibuat khusus untuk PRN Melaka — kerana inilah saya telah menyeru supaya satu mesyuarat diadakan bersama dengan SPR, Kementerian Kesihatan, dan semua parti-parti politik yang berminat dan juga NGO yang berkenaan untuk membincangkan perkara ini.

Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia pula tidak membantu untuk menjaga imejnya apabila badan tersebut gagal mengambil tindakan terhadap mantan Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin, selepas aduan daripada Bersih yang Gerai Prihatin Rakyat yang dikendalikan Bersatu dengan menjual barang runcit pada harga murah adalah satu taktik “pembelian undi” dan merupakan satu kesalahan pilihan raya.

Tidak peliklah sekiranya kedudukan negara kita menjunam lagi dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah Transparency International 2021 yang akan diumumkan Januari tahun hadapan.

Adakah SPRM akan menebus semula maruah mereka?

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 1 November 2021)

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Ismail Sabri should stop making “motherhood statements” but act or explain why no action is being taken against two former Prime Ministers for violating the Health Ministry SOP for  the Malacca general election

(Versi BM)

The Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri should stop making “motherhood statements” but act or explain why no action is being taken against the two former Prime Ministers, Najib Razak and Muhyiddin Yassin, for violating the Health Ministry SOP for the Malacca General Election banning physical election campaigns and “disguised” events.

Ismail Sabri has an alternative – admit that the Health Ministry SOP was not suitable and not well thought through and should be repealed and replaced by a more suitable one – the result of the consultation of the Health Ministry, Election Commission, the political parties and interested NGOs.

Or is the Malacca general election to see a new form of Dua Darjat in the Covid-19 pandemic SOP, completely at variance with the 2022 Budget which aims to safely open up the economy and the country without worsening the Covid-19 pandemic?

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

Ismail Sabri perlu berhenti menyatakan perkara yang sudah diketahui umum, sebaliknya beliau perlu bertindak atau memberikan penjelasan mengapa tidak ada tindakan diambil terhadap dua orang mantan Perdana Menteri kerana melanggar SOP PRN Melaka yang dikeluarkan Kementerian Kesihatan

Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri perlu berhenti menyatakan perkara yang sudah diketahui umum, sebaliknya beliau perlu bertindak atau memberikan penjelasan mengapa tidak ada tindakan diambil terhadap dua orang mantan Perdana Menteri kerana melanggar SOP Pilihan Raya Negeri Melaka yang dikeluarkan Kementerian Kesihatan yang melarang aktiviti kempen secara fizikal atau apa-apa “acara secara sembunyi” berkenaan PRN tersebut.

Ismail Sabri ada alternatif — beliau boleh mengakui yang SOP Kementerian Kesihatan ini tidak sesuai dan tidak difikirkan sepenuhnya dan patut dibatalkan dan digantikan dengan SOP yang lebih sesuai dengan konsultasi bersama pihak Kementerian Kesihatan, Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya, parti-parti politik, dan NGO yang berminat.

Atau adakah PRN Melaka ini akan menunjukkan bentuk baharu layanan dua darjat dalam pelaksanaan SOP Covid-19, satu perkara yang sama sekali bertentangan dengan Belanjawan 2022 yang menyasarkan untuk membuka semula ekonomi dan aktiviti dalam negara secara selamat tanpa menambah buruk keadaan pandemik Covid-19?

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 2 November 2021)

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Matters of concern that Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 death figures  have  yesterday risen to 65 deaths after two days of reduced numbers and the Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths are again in double-digit figures

(Versi BM)

The 2022 Budget presented by the Finance Minster, Tengku Zafrul Tengku Aziz to Parliament on Friday was one major exercise of denial syndrome where the Ismail Sabri government refused to face up to the fact that until the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by the Prime Minister and the four Pakatan Harapan leaders on Sept. 13, 2021, Malaysia had lost the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, especially from the declaration of Emergency on January 11, 2021.

When the 2021 Budget was presented by Tengku Zafrul in the Muhyiddin Government on Nov. 6, 2020, there were cumulative totals of 38,189 Covid-19 cases and 279 Covid-19 deaths.

When the Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau on Sept. 13, 2021, there were cumulative totals of 1,995,771 Covid-19 cases and 21,124 Covid-19 deaths.

As of yesterday (Nov. 1) , the cumulative totals increased to 2,476,268 Covid-19 cases and 28,975 Covid-19 deaths.

This means that from the presentation of the 2021 Budget on Nov. 6, 2020 to the signing of the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021, there was a 52 times’ increase of the Covid-19 cases and an increase of 76 times the Covid-19 deaths.

But during the 50 days between the signing of the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021 and Nov.1. 2021 there was an increase of 19.4% in the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases and an increase of 27% in the cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths.

This was the very intention of the CSR MOU – to stop the dizzy surge of Covid-19 cases and deaths destroying lives and livelihoods in Malaysia.

But will the reduction of the daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths hold?

it is matters of concern that the reduction of daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths were too slow as compared to other ASEAN countries like Indonesia and the Philippines, let alone other Asian nations like India and China.

Yesterday Malaysia recorded 4,626 daily new Covid-19 cases and 63 Covid-19 deaths, which is far cry from Indonesia’s 402 daily new Covid-19 cases and 18 Covid-19 deaths (18 consecutive days in triple-digit figures for daily new cases and 32 consecutive days in double-digit for daily Covid-19 deaths).

The slow rate of reduction to triple and then double-digit figures for daily new Covid-19 cases and single-digit for daily Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia is worrisome.

Although Malaysia reached a new low of 133 days when it recorded 4,626 daily new Covid-19 cases yesterday, the daily Covid-19 death numbers have gone up to 63 deaths after falling to 36 and 44 deaths the previous two days – with the BID Covid-19 deaths returning to double-digit figure of 18 deaths.

It has been reported that most of the fatality figures were backlog figures sometimes more than a week old.

Malaysians are still waiting for the Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin to come clean on the high Covid-19 fatality rates in Malaysia.

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

Amat membimbangkan bahawa jumlah kes kematian harian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia telah meningkat kepada 65 orang semalam selepas dua hari berturut-turut mengalami penurunan dan angka kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID) kembali meningkat kepada julat dua angka

Belanjawan 2022 yang dibentangkan oleh Menteri Kewangan, Tengku Zafrul Tengku Aziz di Parlimen pada Jumaat adalah salah satu contoh sindrom penafian di mana kerajaan Ismail Sabri enggan untuk berdepan dengan hakikat bahawa sehingga hari Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) ditandatangani oleh Perdana Menteri dan empat pemimpin Pakatan Harapan pada 13 September 2021, Malaysia telah tewas dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, terutama dari hari pertama pelaksanaan Darurat pada 11 Januari 2021.

Semasa Belanjawan 2021 dibentangkan oleh Tengku Zafrul di bawah Kerajaan Muhyiddin pada 6 November 2020, jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 38,189 dengan 279 kematian terkumpul.

Semasa MOU CSR ditandatangani antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu dan Wilfred Madius Tangau pada 13 September 2021, jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 1,995,771 dengan 21,124 kematian terkumpul.

Setakat semalam (1 November) jumlah keseluruhan kes tersebut meningkat kepada 2,476,268 dengan 28,975 kematian terkumpul.

Ini bermakna, dari hari pembentangan Belanjawan 2021 pada 6 November 2020 hingga hari majlis tandatangan MOU CSR pada 13 September 2021, terdapat peningkat sebanyak 52 kali ganda untuk jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 dan peningkatan 76 kali ganda untuk jumlah keseluruhan kes kematian akibat wabak itu.

Namun, sepanjang 50 hari antara majlis tandatangan MOU CSR pada 13 September 2021 dan 1 November 2021, terdapat peningkatan 19.4% dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan peningkat sebanyak 27% dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes kematian akibat wabak itu.

Ini adalah satu sebab mengapa MOU CSR diperlukan — untuk menghentikan peningkatan mendadak dalam jumlah kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan jumlah kes kematian akibat wabak itu yang memusnahkan kehidupan dan mata pencarian rakyat Malaysia.

Namun, adakah trend penurunan dalam jumlah kes jangkitan dan kematian akibat Covid-19 akan berterusan?

Amat membimbangkan kerana penurunan jumlah kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan jumlah kes kematian akibat wabak itu agak perlahan jika dibandingkan dengan negara-negara ASEAN lain seperti Indonesia dan Filipina, apatah lagi negara Asia lain seperti India dan China.

Semalam, Malaysia merekodkan 4,626 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 63 kematian, yang mana jauh lebih tinggi berbanding Indonesia yang merekodkan 402 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dengan 18 kematian (18 hari berturut-turut mencatatkan kes jangkitan Covid-19 dalam lingkungan julat tiga angka dan 32 hari berturut-turut mencatatkan kes kematian akibat wabak itu dalam lingkungan julat dua angka).

Kadar penurunan kepada julat tiga angka dan kemudian julat dua angka untuk kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan julat satu angka untuk kes kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia yang agak perlahan amat membimbangkan.

Meskipun Malaysia mencapai angka kes harian Covid-19 terendah dalam tempoh 133 hari dengan 4,626 kes semalam, angka korban Covid-19 telah meningkat kepada 63 orang selepas mencatatkan penurunan kepada 36 dan 44 orang pada dua hari lalu — dengan kes kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID) kembali meningkat kepada julat dua angka dengan 18 korban.

Telah dilaporkan terdapat masalah tunggakan (backlog) pengurusan mayat untuk tempoh kira-kira lebih seminggu.

Rakyat Malaysia masih menantikan penjelasan Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin berhubung kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 yang begitu tinggi di Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Selasa, 2 November 2021)

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The Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is about the minimalist position both sides could agree and not the maximalist position each side could demand

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I received a note from a DAP supporter about the 2022 Budget presented by the Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Tengku Aziz presented to Parliament last Friday.

The note said:

“DAP should vote against the passing of Budget 2022.

“To protest against the Budget giving overwhelming allocations for the Malays and peanuts to the other races. They are virtually telling you that Chinese votes don’t matter. If PH votes for the Budget, I won’t bother voting in GE15.”

There is considerable misconception and misunderstanding about the Confidence-Supply-Reform ( CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabr on the one hand and the four Pakatan Harapan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Tangau on the other in Parliament on Sept.13, 2021.

There are those who believe that Ismail Sabri had betrayed the government parties and there are those who believe that the four Pakatan Harapan leaders have sold out the principles and objectives of the Pakatan Harpaan component parties.

Both are wrong.

The Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is about the minimalist position both sides could agree and not the maximalist position each side could demand.

Pakatan Harapan leaders signed the CSR MOU for three important reasons:

The first one is to end the tragedy and catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia.

When Tengku Zafrul presented his first budget – the bumper RM322 billion 2021 Budget – on Nov. 6, 2020, there were cumulative totals of 38,189 Covid-19 cases and 279 Covid-19 deaths.

When the Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on Sept. 13, 2021, there were cumulative totals of 1,995,771 Covid-19 cases and 21,124 Covid-19 deaths.

Yesterday (Nov. 1), Malaysia recorded the cumulative totals of 2,476,268 Covid-19 cases and 28,975 Covid-19 deaths.

This means that from the presentation of the 2021 Budget on Nov. 6, 2020 to the signing of the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021, Covid-19 cases in Malaysia increased by more than 52 times, while Covi-19 deaths increased by some 76 times.

But in the 50 days between the signing of the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021 and Nov.1. 2021, neither the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases or Covid-19 deaths had doubled, as the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases only increased by 19.4% while Covid-19 deaths increase by only 27%.

I am worried that the reduction of daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths is not faster, but we are in a trajectory of a downward slope for both Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths.

The CSR MOU has achieved its first objective.

The second CSR MOU objective is to ensure that some RM45 billion are allocated to relieve the sufferings of the people as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been met by Tengku Zafrul’s bigger bumper 2022 Budget involving an allocation of RM332.1 billion.

The third reason is to initiate parliamentary and institutional reforms which the Sabri Ismail government has up to next year to fulfil.

I for one am not happy with Tengku Zafrul’s 2022 Budget, which is nothing but a major exercise of denial syndrome where the Ismail Sabri government refused to face up to the fact that until the CSR MOU on Sept. 13, 2021, Malaysia had lost the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, especially with the declaration of Emergency on January 11, 2021.

Furthermore, the 2022 Budget went against the very grain of the concept of the Keluarga Malaysia objective.

As I have said, Ismail Sabri is no reformer but he is forced by the precarious political arithmetic in government to sign the CSR MOU to ensure the survival and stability of his government.

If Ismail Sabri could exercise political hegemony, as UMNO had exercised in Barisan Nasional until the 2018 General Election, nobody would expect Ismail Sabri to sign the CSR MOU with Pakatan Harapan.

Pakatan Harapan undertook under the CSR MOU not to support a vote of no-confidence on Ismail Sabri as Prime Minister or to reject the 2022 Budget.

We will be true to our word and comply with our promises. We have not undertaken to support the 2022 Budget. If we do not support the 2022 Budget, we will abstain.

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskander Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 2nd November 2021)

Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) Kepercayaan-Perbekalan-Reformasi (CSR) adalah tentang mencari kompromi antara kedua-dua pihak berkenaan beberapa perkara yang boleh dipersetujui bersama dan bukan tentang untuk menegakkan tuntutan masing-masing

Saya menerima sekeping nota daripada penyokong DAP mengenai Belanjawan 2022 yang dibentangkan oleh Menteri Kewangan, Tengku Zafrul Tengku Aziz di Parlimen pada Jumaat lalu.

Nota itu berbunyi:

“DAP harus mengundi untuk menolak Belanjawan 2022.

“Ini bagi menunjukkan bantahan terhadap Belanjawan yang memberikan peruntukan yang begitu besar peruntukan kepada orang Melayu dan peruntukan yang begitu sedikit kepada kaum lain. Mereka secara tidak langsung mengatakan yang mereka tidak peduli terhadap undi daripada pengundi Cina. Jika PH memilih untuk menyokong belanjawan tersebut, saya tidak akan mengundi pada PRU15.”

Terdapat kekeliruan dan salah faham berkenaan Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) Kepercayaan-Perbekalan-Reformasi (CSR) yang ditandatangani antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri di dan empat pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu dan Wilfred Tangau pada 13 September 2021 di Parlimen.

Satu pihak percaya bahawa Ismail Sabri telah mengkhianati parti-parti dalam kerajaan dan satu pihak lagi pula percaya bahawa keempat-empat pemimpin Pakatan Harapan telah menggadaikan prinsip dan objektif parti komponen Pakatan Harapan.

Kedua-duanya salah.

MOU CSR adalah tentang mencari kompromi antara kedua-dua belah pihak berkenaan beberapa perkara dan bukannya tentang untuk menegakkan tuntutan masing-masing.

Pemimpin Pakatan Harapan menandatangani MOU CSR atas tiga sebab utama seperti berikut:

Pertama, adalah untuk menghentikan tragedi dan bencana penularan wabak Covid-19 di Malaysia.

Semasa Tengku Zafrul membentangkan Belanjawan pertamanya — Belanjawan 2021 yang berjumlah RM322 bilion — pada 6 November 2020, jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 38,189 dengan 279 kematian.

Semasa MOU CSR ditandatangani antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu dan Wilfred Madius Tangau pada 13 September 2021, jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 1,995,771 dengan 21,124 kematian terkumpul.

Setakat semalam (1 November) jumlah keseluruhan kes tersebut meningkat kepada 2,476,268 dengan 28,975 kematian terkumpul.

Ini bermakna, dari hari pembentangan Belanjawan 2021 pada 6 November 2020 hingga hari majlis tandatangan MOU CSR pada 13 September 2021, terdapat peningkat sebanyak 52 kali ganda untuk jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 dan peningkatan 76 kali ganda untuk jumlah keseluruhan kes kematian akibat wabak itu.

Namun, sepanjang 50 hari antara majlis tandatangan MOU CSR pada 13 September 2021 dan 1 November 2021, terdapat peningkatan 19.4% dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan peningkat sebanyak 27% dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes kematian akibat wabak itu.

Sebelum ini saya amat bimbang penurunan jumlah kes harian Covid-19 dan jumlah korban harian Covid-19 tidak cukup ketara, pun begitu, kita nampaknya sedang menuju ke arah penurunan untuk kedua-dua kategori kes jangkitan dan korban akibat Covid-19.

MOU CSR telah mencapai objektif pertamanya.

Objektif kedua MOU CSR adalah untuk memastikan kira-kira RM45 bilion diperuntukkan untuk meringankan beban rakyat yang terjejas akibat penularan wabak Covid-19, yang mana telah disusuli dengan peruntukan RM332.1 bilion yang diumumkan Tengku Zafrul dalam Belanjawan 2022.

Sebab ketiga adalah untuk memulakan reformasi Parlimen dan institusi yang mana kerajaan Ismail Sabri mempunyai masa sehingga tahun depan untuk memenuhinya.

Saya sendiri tidak berpuas hati dengan Belanjawan 2022 yang dibentangkan Tengku Zafrul, yang mana dilihat sebagai sindrom penafian di mana mana kerajaan Ismail Sabri dilihat enggan untuk berdepan dengan hakikat bahawa sehingga hari Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) ditandatangani oleh Perdana Menteri dan empat pemimpin Pakatan Harapan pada 13 September 2021, Malaysia telah tewas dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, terutama dari hari pertama pelaksanaan Darurat pada 11 Januari 2021.

Tambah pula, Belanjawan 2022 membelakangi konsep serta objektif Keluarga Malaysia.

Seperti yang diperkatakan saya sebelum ini, Ismail Sabri bukanlah seorang pejuang reformasi, namun beliau terpaksa menandatangani MOU CSR demi memastikan kelangsungan dan kestabilan kerajaan pimpinan beliau.

Jika Ismail Sabri mampu untuk mengekalkan hegemoni politik UMNO, seperti yang dilakukan parti itu ketika menguasai Barisan Nasional sehingga Pilihan Raya Umum 2018, tidak mungkin Ismail Sabri akan menandatangani MOU CSR dengan Pakatan Harapan.

Pakatan Harapan menandatangani MOU CSR bukan dengan tujuan untuk tidak menyokong undi tidak percaya terhadap Ismail Sabri sebagai Perdana Menteri atau menolak Belanjawan 2022.

Kami akan terus tetap berpegang kepada kata-kata kami dan memenuhi janji-janji kami. Kami tidak memberikan sebarang komitmen untuk menyokong Belanjawan 2022. Jika kami tidak menyokong Belanjawan 2022, maka itu bermakna kami mengambil pendirian untuk berkecuali.

(Kenyataan Media (3) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 2 November 2021)

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Government should adopt the 5,000 children orphaned by the Covid-19 pandemic which had killed more than 29,000 people  by setting up a special orphanage responsible for their education from primary to university level as well as all their welfare needs

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The cumulative death toll of the 22-month Covid-19 pandemic has passed the 29,000-mark and some 5,000 children had been orphaned as a result of the loss of their parents who perished in the pandemic.

It took 13 months for Malaysia to record the first 1,000 death on February 17, 2021, but it has taken two weeks to record the last thousand deaths from 28,000 to 29,000 Covid-19 deaths.

My worst thought may prove to be true, that on Khairy Jamaluyddin’s first 100 days on Dec. 7, 2021, we will pass the 30,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia.

Will the Covid-19 pandemic be more fatal than the Spanish Flu in 1918, which killed 34,644 people in Malaysia?

The government should adopt the 5,000 children orphaned who lost their parents in the Covid-19 pandemic and set up a special orphanage responsible for their education from primary to university level as well as all their welfare needs.

This is the least the government should do for the 5,000 children orphaned by the Covid-19 pandemic, as the government must take responsibility for their welfare as they lost their parents as a result of the abysmal government failure to keep the death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic at the lowest level possible.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the ASEAN and East Asian regions with 876 deaths per 1 million population – a record which reflected poorly on the government’s capability and public health system.

I hope the government will act boldly to name December 30 as the National Memorial Day for the more than 30,000 Covid-19 dead in Malaysia as well as to set up a special orphanage and adopt the 5,000 children orphaned by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Can the Cabinet decide on these two matters in its next meeting?

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

Kerajaan perlu membela nasib 5,000 kanak-kanak yang menjadi yatim akibat wabak Covid-19 yang membunuh lebih dari 29,000 orang dengan menyediakan pusat jagaan anak yatim piatu khas untuk memberikan pendidikan kepada mereka dari peringkat sekolah rendah hingga ke universiti, selain menjaga keperluan dan kebajikan mereka

Jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 selama 22 bulan wabak itu menular telah melepasi paras 29,000 dan kira-kira 5,000 kanak-kanak telah menjadi yatim piatu ekoran kehilangan ibu bapa mereka yang terkorban akibat wabak itu.

13 bulan adalah masa yang diambil oleh Malaysia untuk merekodkan 1,000 kematian pertama pada 17 Februari 2021, namun, jumlah keseluruhan kes kematian meningkat dari 28,000 kepada 29,000 hanya dalam tempoh dua minggu sahaja.

Jangkaan terburuk saya terbukti benar, bahawa pada 100 hari pertama Khairy Jamaluddin menjadi Menteri Kesihatan, iaitu pada 7 Disember 2021, jumlah keseluruhan kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia akan melepasi paras 30,000.

Adakah wabak Covid-19 akan meragut lebih banyak nyawa berbanding wabak Selsema Sepanyol yang berlaku pada 1918, yang membunuh 34,644 orang di Malaysia?

Kerajaan harus membela nasib 5,000 kanak-kanak yang menjadi yatim piatu akibat wabak Covid-19 yang membunuh lebih 29,000 orang dengan menyediakan pusat jagaan anak yatim piatu khas untuk memberikan pendidikan kepada mereka dari peringkat sekolah rendah hingga ke menara gading, selain menjaga keperluan dan kebajikan mereka.

Ini adalah antara usaha yang sekurang-kurangnya boleh dilakukan oleh kerajaan untuk membela nasib 5,000 kanak-kanak berkenaan yang sekelip mata menjadi yatim piatu akibat penularan Covid-19, kerana kerajaan harus bertanggungjawab terhadap kebajikan mereka kerana mereka kehilangan ibu bapa akibat daripada kegagalan kerajaan untuk menurunkan angka kematian akibat Covid-19 ke paras yang serendah mungkin.

Malaysia mempunyai jumlah kematian per sejuta penduduk tertinggi di rantau ASEAN dan Asia Timur dengan 876 kematian per sejuta penduduk — sebuah rekod yang mencerminkan kemampuan kerajaan yang teruk selain sistem kesihatan awam yang lemah.

Saya berharap kerajaan akan bertindak dengan berani untuk menjadikan 30 Disember sebagai Hari Memorial Kebangsaan bagi memperingati lebih 30,000 mangsa Covid-19 di Malaysia selain menubuhkan sebuah pusat jagaan anak yatim khas untuk membela nasib 5,000 kanak-kanak yang menjadi yatim piatu sekelip mata akibat wabak Covid-19.

Bolehkah Kabinet memutuskan kedua-dua perkara ini dalam mesyuarat Kabinet yang akan datang?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Rabu, 3 November 2021)

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Let Deepavali this year mark a new beginning for  mankind after the ravages and destruction of the 22-month  Covid-19 pandemic

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More than five million lives in the world have been lost in the Covid-19 pandemic but health experts and the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate that the true toll could be far higher – two to three times higher than the official records.

By the first week of November, the global cumulative total of Covid-19 cases would have reached 250 million cases.

The Covid-19 pandemic in the past 22 months is a dark chapter in the history of mankind but there are positive signs. It has taken a longer time i.e. 110 days, to reach the five million dead from the four-million mark compared to just under 90 days to rise from three million to four million dead.

But the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had recently warned that the pandemic was “far from over”, where countries with low vaccination rates are seeing soaring infections and deaths.

Let Deepavali this year mark a new beginning for mankind after the ravages and destruction to the lives and livelihoods of the 22-month Covid-19 pandemic.

In Malaysia, we are nearing cumulative totals of three million Covid-19 cases and 30,000 Covid-19 deaths.

We must continue to keep to the downward trajectory of the Covid-19 curve and Covid-19 deaths until we reach a double-digit daily new Covid-19 cases and single-digit daily Covid-19 deaths.

We must follow the examples of Indonesia, India and China which have undergone sharp declines in Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths – with Indonesia experiencing 19 consecutive days in triple-digit figures for daily new cases and 33 consecutive days in double-digit numbers for Covid-19 deaths.

On Nov 1, India even recorded four-digit daily new cases while Malaysia is struggling to go below 4,626 daily new cases for the past month.

There is no reason why Malaysia cannot produce better results in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic when compared to Indonesia, India and China.

(Deepavali 2021 Message by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 3rd November 2021)

Jadikan Deepavali tahun ini sebagai permulaan baharu untuk umat manusia selepas 22 bulan berhadapan dengan kerosakan dan kemusnahan akibat Covid-19

Lebih daripada lima juta nyawa di seluruh dunia telah terkorban akibat Covid-19, tetapi pakai kesihatan dan Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) telah menjangkakan yang angka sebenar mungkin jauh lebih tinggi — dua ke tiga kali ganda berbanding dengan angka rasmi.

Menjelang minggu pertama bulan November, angka kes terkumpul Covid-19 telah mencecah 250 juta kes.

Wabak Covid-19 dalam 22 bulan yang lepas merupakan satu era yang gelap dalam sejarah manusia, tetapi masih ada tanda-tanda positif. Wabak ini mengambil masa yang lebih lama, iaitu 110 hari, untuk mencapai lima juta kematian daripada angka empat juta sebelum ini, berbanding dengan 90 hari yang diambil untuk menjadi angka empat juta dari tiga juta.

Tetapi, Ketua Pengarah WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, telah memberikan amaran yang wabak ini masih “jauh lagi sebelum tamat”, di mana negara-negara dengan kadar vaksinasi yang rendah melihat kadar jangkitan dan kematian melonjak tinggi.

Kita perlu jadikan Deepavali tahun ini sebagai sebuah permulaan baharu untuk umat manusia selepas kerosakan dan kemusnahan kepada nyawa dan kehidupan dalam 22 bulan berhadapan dengan wabak Covid-19 sebelum ini.

Di Malaysia, kita menghampiri angka tiga juta kes Covid-19 dan 30,000 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Kita perlu terus mengekalkan trajektori menurunkan lekuk penularan Covid-19 dan kematian akibat Covid-19 sehingga kita mencapai julat dua angka kes baharu dan kematian dalam satu angka.

Kita perlu mengikuti tauladan di Indonesia, India, dan China, yang telah mencatatkan penurunan mendadak kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 — di mana Indonesia telah mencatatkan 19 hari berturut-turut dengan kes dalam julat tiga angka dan 33 hari berturut-turut mencatatkan kematian dalam julat dua angka.

Pada 1 November, India mencatatkan kes baharu dalam julat empat angka, manakala Malaysia pula sedang bergelut untuk turun ke paras bawah daripada 4,626 kes baharu dalam sebulan yang lepas.

Tidak ada sebab mengapa kita tidak dapat mencatatkan hasil yang lebih baik dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 berbanding dengan Indonesia, India, dan China.

(Perutusan Hari Deepavali 2021 oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 3 November 2021)

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The hardliners in the  Ismail Sabri government who want Malacca and Sarawak general elections this year and believe there is a possibility of wiping out DAP or deliver a fatal blow to DAP have won over the moderates who want to uphold the CSR MOU and delay elections

The hardliners in the Ismail Sabri government who want Malacca and Sarawak general elections this year and believe that there is a possibility of wiping out the DAP or deliver a fatal blow to DAP have won over the moderates who want to uphold the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) and delay elections.

The hardliners argue that a devastating blow to DAP in Malacca and Sarawak will further the cause of the “race and religion” politics and rhetoric of the political parties in government which had toppled the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government in February 2020.

They did not expect MCA in Barisan Nasional, Gerakan in Perikatan Nasional or SUPP to regain electoral support, but they believe that the disappointments of the DAP voters and the Covid-19 pandemic are a powerful mix which should be fully exploited either to wipe out the DAP or deliver a fatal blow to the DAP’s concept of a Malaysia as a world-class great nation where every citizen, regardless of race, religion or region, can be a full citizen entitled to freedom, justice and development of his or her full capabilities.

The big question in both the Malacca and Sarawak general election is the voter turnout.

With virtually total restriction on campaigning activities and the example of the Sabah state general election in September last year, which sparked the third Covid-19 wave in Malaysia which became the longest Covid-19 wave in the world as the daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths are still a long way from the pre-Sabah-general-election days, and the disappointments at the toppling of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government by the Sheraton Move conspiracy, the voter turnout could be as low as below 40%.

In these circumstances, the DAP face the existential threat of either being wiped out or suffering a fatal blow to the DAP’s Malaysia Dream of building an united and prosperous multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural country which is a world-class great nation in important fields of human endeavour after leveraging on the best values and virtues of the four great civilizations of the world.

If the hardliners succeed in proving themselves right, then they will have powerful arguments to ditch the CSR MOU and have the 15th general election early next year.

This is food for thought for DAP leaders, members and supporters whether in the country and in the Malaysian Diaspora.

(An Open Letter to DAP leaders, members and supporters by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 4th November 2021)

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Will Malaysia be able to reduce daily new Covid-19 cases to triple-digit figures and daily Covid-19 deaths to single-digit by Khairy’s first 100 days as Health Minister on December 7?

Khairy Jamaluddin’s first 100 days as Health Minister is 33 days away, falling on Dec. 7, 2021.

Will Malaysia be able to end the longest 16-month Covid-19 wave in the world since the  Sabah state general election last September and reduce daily new Covid-19 cases to triple-digit figures and daily Covid-19 deaths to single digit by Khairy’s first 100 days?

Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 5,201 new Covid-19  cases and 46 Covid-19 deaths, bringing the cumulative totals to  2,486,630 Covid-19 cases and 29,0981 Covid-19 deaths (including 5,887 Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 deaths).

Tracking Malaysia’s Covid-19 statistics, the question uppermost in the mind is whether the trajectory in the reduction of  daily new Covid-19 cases is now  stalling, as we took 38 days to go below  10,000 daily new cases on 3rd   Oct.  from the daily peak of 24,599 new cases on 26th August, and we struggled for another 31 days with the lowest 4,626 daily new cases on 1st November.

The question whether in the next 33 days, Malaysia can reduce the daily new Covid-19 cases to triple-digit figure is a very intriguing one.

The same applies to daily Covid-19 deaths, which peaked with 487 daily Covid-19 deaths on 22nd September 2021. It first fell to daily double-digit figures on 4th October when Malaysia recorded 76 Covid-19 deaths.  Can Malaysia fall to single-digit daily Covid-19 deaths on Khairy’s first 100 days on Dec. 7?

These questions become relevant when we see the Covid-19 statistics for Indonesia, India and China as compared to Malaysia’s 5,291 daily new Covid-19 cases and 46 daily Covid-19 deaths yesterday.

Indonesia entered into 20th  consecutive day with daily new Covid-19 cases in triple-digit numbers and 35th consecutive day with daily Covid-19 deaths in double-digit numbers while India recorded daily 12,945 new Covid-19 cases and daily 455 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, which is three per cent of its daily peak of 414,433 daily new cases on May 6 and nine per cent of its peak of 5,015 daily Covid-19 deaths on May 23, 2021.

If  Malaysia, like India, could fall to three per cent of its peak in  daily new Covid-19 cases, we should be recording 735 Covid-19 cases a day.

Will  this day arrive during Khairy’s first 100 Days as Health Minister?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 4th November 2021)

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