#kerajaangagal166 –Call for a “Malaysia Reset” Roundtable of  political and civil society on the occasion of the anniversaries of 64th National Day/58th Malaysia Day  on August 31/Sept. 15  to save Malaysia from the fate of a failed state

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An international media two days ago carried an article entitled: “Malaysia is staggering down the road to failed statehood”.

I agree. Malaysia is not yet a failed state but it is on the trajectory of a failed state, and Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, must unite to save Malaysia from the fate of a failed state.

Malaysia has failed to live up to the promises of Merdeka in 1957 and the formation of Malaysia in 1963 for the country to be an example and showcase to the troubled world as to how diverse races, languages, religions, cultures and civilisations could successfully co-exist and integrate to build a united, harmonious, purposive, democratic, just, progressive and prosperous nation – a top world-class nation.

Malaysia has become one of the worst-performing nations in the world in the 18-month long Covid-19 pandemic, overtaking in less than eight months over 50 countries having the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases – falling from 85th rank in November last year to 33rd rank today.

Previous worst-performing nations like China, United States, India, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey and Iran have turned the corner and seen light at the end of the tunnel, considerably reduced their Covid-19 cases (India fell by 90%, US by 95% and China by 99.8% from their respective peaks) and Covid-19 deaths (India fell by 82%, US by 97% and China by 99% from their respective peaks), while Malaysia has just set a new daily peak of 9,353 cases yesterday and breaking the 6,000-mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 deaths.

From the present rate of Covid-19 infection, Malaysia will be ranked among the 30 worst countries in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic, having more than a million cases and over 10,000 Covid-19 deaths when we celebrate our 64th National Day on August 31 and 58th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2021.

I call for a “Malaysia Reset” Roundtable of the political and civil society on the occasion of the anniversaries of the 64th National Day/58th Malaysia Day on August 31/Sept. 15 to save Malaysia from the fate of a failed state

The “Malaysia Reset” Roundtable Conference should, among others, pursue the following objectives:

1. Reaffirm Malaysia as a constitutional monarchy based on parliamentary democracy.

2. Uphold the five nation-building principles of Rukun Negara.

3. Make Malaysia a normal democratic country.

4. Restore Parliament as the highest legislative and political chamber in the land, in accordance with the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers among the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.

5. Uphold the independence, impartiality and professionalism of the Judiciary.

6. Ensure an independent, non-partisan, professional and efficient Election Commission.

7. War against corruption, cronyism and abuses of power.

8. Malaysia should become a country where the talents and expertise of all Malaysians can find fulfilment so that the nation realise the full potential in its development in all spheres of human endeavour.

9. The fulfilment of aspirations of the people of Sabah and Sarawak for an equal place under the Malaysian sun, as spelt out in the 1963 Malaysia Agreement.

10. An national unity mission and goal to unite all Malaysians e.g. a united and progressive Malaysian nation in 2050.

Seventy years ago in 1951, the founder of UMNO Datuk Onn Jaafar was told that he was “too ahead of the times” when he left UMNO because his proposal to UMNO to open its doors to non-Malays and end the race-based communalist politics was rejected.

Fifty-five years ago, on 18th March 1966, DAP was told that we are “too ahead of the times” when we formed a political party dedicated towards the goal of a democratic, prosperous and just Malaysia for all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region.

Thirty-four years ago, in December 1987, a top police official visited me where I was held in solitary confinement for 60 days during the ISA custodial detention in my second ISA detention under Operation Lalang, and I was told that I would be formally detained and be sent to Kamunting Detention Centre, because the DAP was “too ahead of the times” although DAP principles and polices are right and good for the country – but it might take another generation for them to become generally acceptable.

This is 2021, sixty-four years after Merdeka in 1957 and 58 years after the formation of Malaysia – after three generations of Malaysians.

Are we still “too ahead of the times” to expect Malaysians to think of themselves as Malaysian first, and their other ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic and regional identities second?

A “Malaysia Reset” is imperative but such a “Malaysia Reset” is only possible if two conditions are met:

· firstly, Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics reach a consensus to strive to achieve Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”; and

· secondly, for Malaysians to stop thinking of themselves merely as Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans, Orang Asli but to start thinking of themselves as Malaysians!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 11th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal166 — Seruan untuk persidangan meja bulat “Reset Malaysia” bersama dengan parti politik dan persatuan sivil sempena Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 dan Hari Malaysia ke-58 untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia dari menjadi negara gagal

Satu akhbar antarabangsa menerbitkan satu artikel pendapat yang bertajuk “Malaysia sedang menjunam ke arah negara gagal”.

Saya setuju. Malaysia belum menjadi sebuah negara gagal, tetapi kita sedang berada dalam sebuah trajektori ke arah menjadi negara gagal, dan semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira latar belakang kaum, agama, kawasan, atau politik, perlu bersatu-padu untuk menyelamatkan negara kita daripada ditakdirkan menjadi sebuah negara gagal.

Kita telah gagal untuk memenuhi aspirasi Merdeka pada tahun 1957 dan pembentukan Malaysia pada tahun 1963 di mana negara ini sepatutnya menjadi contoh dan menunjukkan kepada dunia yang bermasalah tentang bagaimana pelbagai kaum, bahasa, agama, budaya dan peradaban dapat berjaya wujud bersama dan berintegrasi untuk membina sebuah negara yang bersatu, harmoni, bermatlamat, demokratik, adil, progresif dan sejahtera — sebuah negara bertaraf dunia yang terbaik.

Malaysia telah menjadi salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk di dunia dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 untuk 18 bulan yang lepas, dalam masa tidak sampai lapan bulan, melonjak 50 kedudukan dari segi jumlah kes Covid-19 terkumpul — dari tempat ke-85 pada bulan November tahun lepas ke kedudukan ke-33 hari ini.

Negara-negara dengan prestasi terburuk sebelum ini seperti China, Amerika Syarikat, India, United Kingdom, Itali, Perancis, Sepanyol, Jerman, Turki dan Iran telah berubah kepada yang lebih baik dan kini dapat melihat cahaya di hujung terowong, mengurangkan kes Covid-19 mereka (India menyaksikan penurunan 90%, AS 95% dan China 99.8% dari kemuncak penularan masing-masing) dan kematian Covid-19 (India jatuh 82%, AS 97% dan China 99% dari puncak masing-masing), sementara Malaysia baru sahaja mencapai kemuncak harian baru sebanyak 9,353 kes semalam dan memecahkan angka 6,000 untuk jumlah kematian Covid-19 terkumpul.

Dengan kadar jangkitan Covid-19 semasa ini, Malaysia akan berada dalam kalangan 30 negara dengan jumlah kes tertinggi di dunia, dengan lebih daripada satu juta kes dan lebih daripada 10,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 menjelang Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 pada 31 Ogos dan Hari Malaysia ke-58 pada 16 September 2021.

Saya menggesa supaya persidangan meja bulat “Reset Malaysia” bersama dengan parti politik dan persatuan sivil sempena Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 dan Hari Malaysia ke-58 diadakan untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia dari menjadi negara gagal.

Persidangan Meja Bulat “Reset Malaysia” harus antara lain mencapai objektif berikut:

1. Menegaskan semula asas Malaysia sebagai negara dengan sistem raja berperlembagaan yang berteraskan demokrasi berparlimen.

2. Menegakkan lima prinsip pembinaan negara Rukun Negara.

3. Menjadikan Malaysia sebagai negara demokratik yang normal.

4. Kembalikan Parlimen sebagai ruang perundangan dan politik tertinggi dalam negara, selari dengan doktrin pemisahan kuasa di antara pihak Eksekutif, Badan Perundangan dan Kehakiman.

5. Menegakkan kebebasan, sifat tidak partisan, dan profesionalisme Kehakiman.

6. Memastikan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya yang bebas, tidak berpihak, profesional dan cekap.

7. Perang menentang rasuah, kronisme dan penyalahgunaan kuasa.

8. Malaysia perlu menjadi sebuah negara di mana bakat dan kepakaran semua rakyat Malaysia dapat memperoleh kepuasan sehingga negara dapat merealisasikan potensi penuh dalam pembangunannya dalam semua bidang usaha manusia.

9. Pemenuhan aspirasi rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak untuk mendapat tempat yang saksama di bawah sinar matahari Malaysia, seperti yang dijelaskan dalam Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

10. Misi dan matlamat perpaduan nasional untuk menyatukan semua rakyat Malaysia, misalnya, bangsa Malaysia yang bersatu dan progresif pada tahun 2050.

Tujuh puluh tahun yang lalu pada tahun 1951, pengasas UMNO, Datuk Onn Jaafar diberitahu bahawa beliau “terlalu awal untuk era itu” ketika beliau meninggalkan UMNO kerana cadangannya kepada UMNO untuk membuka pintu kepada orang bukan Melayu dan mengakhiri politik komunal berdasarkan kaum ditolak.

Lima puluh lima tahun yang lalu, pada 18 Mac 1966, DAP diberitahu bahawa kita “terlalu maju untuk era tersebut” ketika kita membentuk sebuah parti politik yang ditujukan untuk tujuan sebuah Malaysia yang demokratik, makmur dan adil untuk semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira bangsa, agama atau wilayah.

Tiga puluh empat tahun yang lalu, pada bulan Disember 1987, seorang pegawai tinggi polis melawat saya di mana saya ditahan dalam penjara selama 60 hari semasa penahanan di bawah ISA kedua saya di bawah Operasi Lalang, dan saya diberitahu bahawa saya akan ditahan secara rasmi dan dihantar ke Pusat Penahanan Kamunting, kerana DAP “terlalu kehadapan berbanding dengan zaman itu” walaupun prinsip dan polisi DAP betul dan baik untuk negara — tetapi mungkin memerlukan generasi lain agar mereka dapat diterima secara umum.

Kini, sudah 2021, enam puluh empat tahun selepas Merdeka pada tahun 1957 dan 58 tahun selepas pembentukan Malaysia — sudah ada tiga generasi rakyat Malaysia.

Adakah masih “terlalu awal” untuk kita meminta rakyat Malaysia untuk melihat diri mereka pertamanya sebagai rakyat Malaysia, mengutamakan identiti Malaysia mereka sebelum identiti-identiti lain mereka?

“Reset Malaysia” ini memang penting, tetapi perkara ini hanya boleh berlaku sekiranya dua keadaan berikut dipenuhi:

– Pertama, rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum , agama, wilayah atau politik mencapai kata sepakat untuk berusaha mencapai hasrat Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman agar Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”; dan

– Kedua, agar rakyat Malaysia berhenti memikirkan diri mereka hanya sebagai orang Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Iban, Orang Asli sebaliknya mula melihat diri mereka, pertamanya sebagai rakyat Malaysia!

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Ahad, 11 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal167 – Will India’s oxygen crisis come to Malaysia?

This is the hallmark of an incompetent, inefficient and kakistocratic administration.

On Monday on 5th July, 2021, the Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement  saying that the government has agreed to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong that a special meeting of the Third Session of the 14th Parliament would be held for five days from 26th July to 2nd August for the Dewan Rakyat and three days from 3rd to 5th August 2021 for the Senate.

As the Cabinet on 30th June was postponed because the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, was hospitalised for  diarrhoea, the Cabinet on 7th July was expected to formalise decision.

If Cabinet had formalised the decision on 7th July  to reconvene Parliament before the emergency ends on August 1, without making alternation as stated in the PMO statement on 5th July, then the notice to MPs about the special Parliamentary meeting  should be sent out latest by Thursday on 8th July and MPs receiving it by Friday 9th July.

But no Member of Parliament has received any such parliamentary notice.

It is such incompetence, inefficiency and kakistocracy that has resulted in Malaysia becoming one of the world’s worst performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic with adverse international surveys, viz:

1.      June 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking with Malaysia falling 35 places from its 16th ranking in January 2021 to 51st position in June 2021 edition out of 53 economies of more than US$200 billion;

2.      Economist’s global normalcy index which placed Malaysia in the last 50th position out 50 countries; and

3.      Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery Index on 7th July which ranks Malaysia No. 114 out of 120 countries on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility.

Malaysia suffers from a political gridlock.

In India, the Indian  Prime Minister dropped 12 members of his Cabinet in a dramatic reshuffle over fierce criticism over the government’s mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, led by the Ministers for Health and Law.

But in Malaysia, the Cabinet Ministers are “untouchable” as the Prime Minister’s survival depends on them.

The Prime Minister’s priority is his own survival and not  the people’s survival.

The Prime Minister cannot sack the Health Minister or he would himself get sacked.

As Brigadier General Dr. Arshil Moideen said yesterday, lack of integrated action and co-ordinated instructions and a lack of speed are among the reasons why the country is unable to beat the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia must get out of this political gridlock if we are to win the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

The gravity of the situation could be gauged from the fact that more and more people in the Klang Valley are asking whether the oxygen crisis during the worst period of the Covid-19 pandemic in India would come to Malaysia.

(Media Statement (2)  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 11th  July , 2021)

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#kerajaangagal168 – Alwi Jantan’s lament is the lament of all Malaysians!

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I waited for the government’s response to the great journalism of Annabelle Lee in Malaysiakini, “Frontliners’ dystopian accounts of Klang Valley hospitals ravaged by Covid-19” but there was none, either on Saturday or Sunday.

How to deny the truth?

The cries of the frontliners in the Klang Valley hospitals whether at Tengku Ampuan Rahiman Hospital in Klang, Ampang Hospital, Selayang Hospital and a Teaching Hospital must haunt all Malaysians, particularly the Muhyiddin government.

Medical frontliners recounted how public hospitals in the Klang Valley are at a breaking point and becoming numb at the mounting Covid-19 deaths.

However, many do not dare to speak on the record as they are public servants and could face disciplinary action.

They have also expressed frustration how some senior health officials are being in denial at the dire situation despite a willingness from external parties to help.

The Covid-19 situation is now at the worst point since the start of the pandemic despite a “total lockdown” since June 1.

This is one of the cries of the medical frontliners:

“In the past few days, medical officers have resigned with 24 hours’ notice. They were committed and worked hard but they were exhausted with this crisis and they lost hope.

“Morale is low and there is no leadership or sympathy. I feel tired, angry and helpless.

“Our government hospitals have been starved for too many years due to poor funding, and a starving person cannot fight infection.”

The lament of a former top civil servant, Alwi Jantan in the following poem is the lament of all Malaysians.

O MENGAPA NEGARA KU

O mengapa negara ku.

Covid melanda bertalu,

Arah haluan tidak menentu,

Bila akan tamat belum tahu.

O mengapa negara ku.

Perintah Kecemasan diistiharkan,

Namun wabak tidak berkurangan,

Rakyat jelata terus keseksaan.

O mengapa negara ku.

Parlimen tak dibenar bersidang,

Oleh kerajaan pintu belakang,

Titah Seri Paduka tak dipandang.

O mengapa negara ku.

Mari kita bersatu padu,

Menolak kerajaan yang lesu,

Semuga negara balik maju.

There can be no dispute about the severe rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths after six months of emergency and 40 days of “total lockdown” and the people’s sense of betrayal that all their sufferings have not borne fruit.

In the past 40 days from June 1, there had been 31% rise in Covid-19 cases despite a 17% fall in testing, and a 111% increase of Covid-19 deaths.

The frustration of the frontliners is made worse when they hear of the political elites playing a fool with the SOPs, visiting their friends, holding meetings and plotting as if there is no Covid-19 crisis.

Does the Muhyiddin government have a plan B? After using their two arrows (lockdowns and vaccines), does it have any other strategy to fight the Covid-19 crisis? Or are we going to do the same thing over and over expecting a different result?

Has it thought of using the private GPs to play a more important role, to take some load off the public hospitals? Can GPs be empowered to treat those who have mild symptoms and leave those in Stage 4 and 5 to the hospitals?

The response of the Army to help the Klang hospital was a welcome sight. Why was the army medical corps not engaged earlier?

With the Delta variant rampaging India, are we prepared for Delta?

The junior doctors complained of lack of equipment. Do we have enough Oxygen supplies in all the major public hospitals as we do not want the oxygen crisis that ravaged India to come to Malaysia.

Do we have a plan B with the Delta variant? What is the proportion of our cases which are of the Delta variant? 50%, 70% or 90%?

Health Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah expected the daily Covid-19 cases to stabilise and show a decline in the next one to two weeks’ time – which means that Parliament will be meeting at a time when daily new Covid-19 cases will be at an all-time high.

Will the Prime Minister give an assurance that this will not be used as an excuse to again suspend Parliament and to extend the emergency?

Finally, are there any plans to ensure that Malaysia will not exceed one million Covid-19 cases and over 10,000 deaths when we mark our 64th National Day on August 31, 2021?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 12th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal168 — Ratapan Alwi Jantan adalah ratapan semua rakyat Malaysia!

Saya menunggu respons kerajaan terhadap kerja penyiasatan kewartawan yang bagus dari Annabelle Lee di Malaysiakini yang bertajuk “Dari petugas baris depan – Bencana yang menimpa hospital Lembah Klang” namun tidak ada sebarang respons yang diberikan oleh kerajaan, baik pada hari Sabtu, atau Ahad.

Bagaimanakah hendak menafikan kebenaran?

Teriakan petugas barisan hadapan di hospital-hospital di Lembah Klang, baik di Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah di Klang, Hospital Ampang, Hospital Selayang, atau hospital mengajar akan terus menghantui semua rakyat Malaysia, terutamanya kerajaan Muhyiddin.

Para petugas barisan hadapan perubatan berkongsi mengenai situasi di mana hospital awam di Lembah Klang kini berada pada titik pecah dan bagaimana mereka kini sudah lali dengan kematian akibat Covid-19.

Namun, tidak ramai yang berani untuk bercakap secara terbuka memandangkan mereka ini adalah kakitangan awam dan berisiko berhadapan dengan tindakan disiplin.

Mereka telah menyatakan kekecewaan mereka mengenai bagaimana sesetengah pegawai perubatan kanan yang cuba menafikan mengenai bencana yang sedang berlaku walaupun terdapat pihak dari luar yang cuba untuk membantu.

Situasi Covid-19 sekarang berada pada tahap terburuk sejak permulaan pandemik ini, walaupun kita sedang berada dalam “sekatan pergerakan penuh” sejak 1 Jun.

Ini adalah salah satu daripada aduan daripada petugas barisan hadapan perubatan”

“Dalam beberapa hari yang lepas, ada pegawai perubatan yang telah meletakkan jawatan dengan notis 24 jam. Mereka adalah petugas yang komited dan bekerja keras tetapi kini telah terlalu letih dan lesu dengan krisis ini dan kini mereka telah berputus harapan.

“Moral kini berada pada peringkat yang amat rendah dan tidak ada kepimpinan atau simpati yang ditunjukkan. Saya berasa letih, marah, dan terkapai-kapai tidak dibantu.

“Hospital kerajaan kita telah terlalu lama “kebulur” kerana tidak cukup peruntukan, dan mereka yang kebuluran tidak boleh melawan jangkitan ini.”

Ratapan seorang mantan kakitangan awam kanan, Alwi Jantan dalam puisi berikut, menjiwai ratapan semua rakyat Malaysia.

O MENGAPA NEGARA KU

O mengapa negara ku.

Covid melanda bertalu,

Arah haluan tidak menentu,

Bila akan tamat belum tahu.

O mengapa negara ku.

Perintah Kecemasan diistiharkan,

Namun wabak tidak berkurangan,

Rakyat jelata terus keseksaan.

O mengapa negara ku.

Parlimen tak dibenar bersidang,

Oleh kerajaan pintu belakang,

Titah Seri Paduka tak dipandang.

O mengapa negara ku.

Mari kita bersatu padu,

Menolak kerajaan yang lesu,

Semuga negara balik maju

Peningkatan mendadak kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 selepas enam bulan dalam perintah darurat dan 40 hari dengan “sekatan pergerakan penuh” ini tidak dapat dinafikan lagi dan begitu juga perasaan rakyat yang merasakan pengorbanan mereka dikhianati dengan pelbagai sekatan yang tidak membuahkan hasil ini.

Dalam 40 hari yang lepas sejak 1 Jun, terdapat 31% peningkatan kes Covid-19 walaupun dengan penurunan kadar saringan sebanyak 17% peratus, kita juga menyaksikan 111% peningkatan kadar kematian akibat Covid-19.

Kekecewaan petugas barisan hadapan ini bertambah buruk lagi apabila mereka mendengar bagaimana golongan elit politik terus bermain-main dengan SOP, melawat rakan-rakan mereka, mengadakan mesyuarat, dan berkomplot, seakan-akan negara kita tidak berhadapan dengan krisis Covid-19 langsung.

Adakah kerajaan Muhyiddin ini mempunyai pelan B? Selepas menggunakan dua senjata (sekatan pergerakan dan vaksinasi), adakah mereka mempunyai sebarang strategi lain untuk melawan krisis ini? Atau adakah kita akan terus menerus melakukan benda yang sama dan berharap kita mendapat keputusan yang berbeza?

Tidakkah kerajaan terfikir untuk melibatkan pengamal am swasta dalam peranan yang lebih penting, untuk mengurangkan beban kepada hospital kerajaan? Bolehkah pengamal am ini diberikan kuasa untuk merawat mereka yang mempunyai simptom ringan dan biarkan mereka yang berada dalam kategori 4 dan 5 untuk dirawat di hospital?

Bantuan pihak Tentera di Hospital Klang amatlah dialu-alukan. Persoalannya adalah, mengapa kor perubatan tentera ini tidak dilibatkan oleh kerajaan lebih awal lagi?

Dengan varian Delta membawa kemusnahan di India, adakah kita bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan varian ini?

Doktor-doktor junior telah mengadu mengenai kekurangan perkakasan. Adakah kita mempunyai bekalan oksigen yang mencukupi di semua hospital awam utama di seluruh negara? Kita tidak mahu krisis oksigen yang berlaku di India untuk terjadi di sini.

Adakah kita mempunyai pelan B mengenai varian Delta ini? Apakah nisbah kes kita yang melibatkan varian Delta? 50%, 70% atau 90%?

Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah menjangkakan yang kes harian Covid-19 ini akan mula stabil dan menunjukkan penurunan dalam satu atau dua minggu yang akan datang — perkara ini bermakna Parlimen akan bersidang semasa kes baharu Covid-19 ini berada pada paras tertinggi dalam sejarah negara.

Adakah Perdana Menteri akan memberikan jaminan yang perkara ini tidak akan digunakan sebagai alasan sekali lagi untuk menggantung sidang Parlimen dan melanjutkan perintah darurat?

Akhir sekali, adakah sebarang rancangan untuk memastikan negara kita tidak akan melepasi paras sejuta kes Covid-19 dan lebih daripada 10,000 kematian akibat wabak ini menjelang sambutan Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 pada 31 Ogos 2021?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 12 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal169 – Time to draft a new strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic to replace the National Recovery Plan and present it  for endorsement by Parliament

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Members of Parliament have not yet received any notice for the parliamentary meeting which is to meet for five days beginning on July 26 as announced by a Prime Minister’s Office statement on July 5, 2021.

As the former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and the MP for Sepang, Hanipa Maidin, has rightly pointed out, this is most improper especially as the five-day special meeting seems to exclude a question-and-answer session for the five days as well as excluding a Royal Address for the official opening of Parliament for the year.

As a result, it makes a mockery of parliamentary democracy in Malaysia.

Only the most dishonest politician will indulge in the denial complex, disputing that the government strategy, the six-month emergency and the “total lockdown” since June 1 had been dismal failures in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, which is fortified by adverse international surveys, viz:

1. June 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking with Malaysia falling 35 places from its 16th ranking in January 2021 to 51st position in June 2021 edition out of 53 economies of more than US$200 billion;

2. Economist’s global normalcy index which placed Malaysia in the last 50th position out 50 countries; and

3. Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery Index on 7th July which ranks Malaysia No. 114 out of 120 countries on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility.

In the past 40 days from June 1, there had been 31% rise in Covid-19 cases despite a 17% fall in testing, and a 111% increase of Covid-19 deaths.

Malaysia has become one of the worst-performing nations in the world in the 18-month long Covid-19 pandemic, overtaking in less than eight months over 50 countries having the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases – falling from 85th rank in November last year to 33rd rank today.

We will overtake Israel to be ranked No. 32 tomorrow if not today, and from the present rate of Covid-19 infection, Malaysia will be ranked among the 30 worst countries in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic and have more than a million Covid-19 cases and over 10,000 Covid-19 deaths when we celebrate our 64th National Day on August 31.

We need a new strategy and approach to stop this upsurge of Covid-10 infection and deaths as well as to inject hope for the future among Malaysians as the government’s present strategy not only cost lives – marked by rising toll and increasing suicides – but destroys livelihoods.

Such despair and hopelessness is clearly evident from the prevalence of “White

Flags”, but how long can the donors last? What happens if even the donors get fewer and fewer and the white flags go unanswered?

The time has come to draft a new strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic to replace the National Recovery Plan, which should be presented to Parliament for endorsement.

I call on the Muhyiddin government to begin to engage with the Parliamentary Opposition to draft such a new strategy, which focuses on re-opening the economy instead of total lockdowns taking into account the view that the new coronavirus cannot be eliminated and human beings must learn to live with it.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 12th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal169 — Masa untuk merangka dan bentang ke Parlimen strategi baharu perang melawan wabak Covid-19 untuk menggantikan Pelan Pemulihan Negara

Ahli-ahli Parlimen masih belum menerima sebarang makluman mengenai sidang Parlimen yang akan bersidang dalam masa lima hari lagi bermula pada 26 Julai seperti yang diumumkan oleh kenyataan Jabatan Perdana Menteri pada 5 Julai 2021.

Sebagai mantan Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri yang juga merupakan Ahli Parlimen Sepang, Hanipa Maidin, telah tekankan, perkara ini amat tidak berpatutan memandangkan sidang lima hari ini kelihatan seakan-akan cuba untuk mengelakkan sesi pertanyaan dan juga upacara pembukaan Parlimen dengan Titah Diraja.

Hasilnya, perkara ini hanya menghina demokrasi berparlimen di Malaysia.

Hanya ahli politik yang teramat tidak jujur sahaja yang akan terus cuba menafikan hakikat bahawa strategi kerajaan, darurat selama enam bulan yang lepas, dan “sekatan pergerakan menyeluruh” sejak 1 Jun ini semua adalah satu kegagalan. Kegagalan yang kini semakin nyata dengan tinjauan penerbitan antarabangsa seperti berikut:

1. Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg untuk bulan Jun 2021 di mana Malaysia jatuh 35 anak tangga daripada tempat ke-16 pada bulan Januari 2021 kepada tempat ke-51 daripada 53 buah negara dengan saiz ekonomi yang lebih besar daripada ASD200 bilion;

2. Indeks Kenormalan Global The Economist yang meletakkan Malaysia di tempat ke-50 daripada 50 negara; dan

3. Indeks Pemulihan Covid-19 Nikkei yang diterbitkan pada 7 Julai yang meletakkan di tempat ke-114 daripada 120 negara dari segi pengurusan jangkitan, pemberian vaksin, dan mobiliti sosial.

Dalam tempoh 40 hari yang lepas sejak 1 Jun, terdapat peningkatan 31% kes Covid-19 walaupun kita menyaksikan penurunan 17% dalam kadar ujian saringan yang dijalankan dalam tempoh yang sama. Kita juga menyaksikan peningkatan 111% kadar kematian akibat Covid-19.

Malaysia telah menjadi salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk di dunia dalam pandemik Covid-19 yang telah melanda negara kita untuk 18 bulan yang lepas ini, mengatasi kedudukan 50 buah negara dalam masa tidak sampai lapan bulan dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul — daripada tempat ke-85 pada November tahun lepas, ke tempat ke-33 hari ini.

Kita akan mengatasi kedudukan Israel di tempat ke-32 esok sekiranya bukan hari ini, dan berdasarkan kadar jangkitan semasa, kita akan berada dalam kalangan 30 negara teratas dengan jumlah kes tertinggi dengan lebih daripada sejuta kes dan 10,000 kematian menjelang Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 pada 31 Ogos akan datang.

Kita perlu strategi dan pendekatan baharu untuk menghentikan lonjakan peningkatan kes dan kematian ini, dan juga untuk menyuntik harapan untuk masa hadapan kepada rakyat Malaysia. Strategi semasa kerajaan ini bukan sahaja mengorbankan nyawa — dari kematian akibat Covid-19 dan juga kes bunuh diri — tetapi juga memusnahkan punca pendapatan dan kehidupan rakyat.

Perasaan putus asa dan tidak mempunyai harapan ini dapat dilihat daripada jumlah “bendera putih” yang dikibarkan, namun, berapa lama penderma boleh membantu? Apa yang akan jadi apabila semakin lama semakin sedikit yang mampu menderma dan semakin banyak “bendera putih” yang tidak dapat dibantu?

Masanya telah tiba untuk kita merangka, membentangkan dan meluluskan di Parlimen sebuah strategi baharu untuk melawan wabak Covid-19 yang akan menggantikan Pelan Pemulihan Negara.

Saya menyeru kerajaan Muhyiddin untuk mula mendekati Ahli-ahli Parlimen Pembangkang untuk melibatkan semua dalam strategi ini, yang perlu fokus kepada usaha untuk membuka semula ekonomi secara selamat, bukannya terus menutup pelbagai sektor kehidupan rakyat, memandangkan wabak ini kelihatan seakan-akan tidak dapat dihapuskan dan sebaliknya kita yang perlu belajar untuk hidup bersamanya dengan selamat.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 12 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal170:  A full plate for the Cabinet  – four  things it should decide tomorrow

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Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker Mohd Rashid Hasnon has confirmed that while a Prime Minister’s Office statement dated 5th July 2021 said that the government has agreed that Parliament would meet for five days from July 26 and the Dewan Negara for three days from August 3, Members of Parliament have not yet received notice from Parliament for such a Parliamentary meeting.

Rashid said that a formal notice from the Cabinet was still pending and that MPs would be informed of the Parliamentary meeting once there is notice from the Cabinet.

This means that the Prime Minister’s Office statement of July 5 was made without Cabinet approval and that the convening of Parliament had not been officially decided by the Cabinet nor was it formalised when it met last Wednesday on July 7, 2021.

The Cabinet meeting tomorrow will be the last Cabinet meeting but one if Parliament is to be convened on Monday, July 26, and MPs should receive formal notice of the parliamentary meeting tomorrow or latest by Thursday if competence and efficiency mean anything to the Cabinet and Parliament.

The Cabinet has a full plate tomorrow but there are at least three things it should decide tomorrow apart from the convening of Parliament on July 26, 2021, viz:

1. The ending of the emergency on August 1, 2021 as it is a dismal failure and wrong strategy to fight the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

2. An apology to the nation for the failure of the government strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the last six months of the emergency, causing a toll of 6,260 deaths and unprecedented high number of suicides, and which is supported by three international surveys, namely:

i. June 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking with Malaysia falling 35 places from its 16th ranking in January 2021 to 51st position in June 2021 edition out of 53 economies of more than US$200 billion;

ii. Economist’s global normalcy index which placed Malaysia in the last 50th position out 50 countries; and

iii. Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery Index on 7th July which ranks Malaysia No. 114 out of 120 countries on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility.

3. Authorise the drafting of a new strategy to replace the National Recovery Plan to win the invisible but lethal war against Covid-19 pandemic with for main objectives:

(i) Remove Malaysia as one of the world’s worst performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic. Malaysia overtook in less than eight months over 50 countries having the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases – falling from 85th rank in November last year to 33rd rank today. We will overtake Israel to be ranked No. 32 today. From the present rate of Covid-19 infection, Malaysia will be ranked among the 30 worst countries in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic and will have more than a million Covid-19 cases and over 10,000 Covid-19 deaths when we celebrate our 64th National Day on August 31. Previous worst-performing nations like China, United States, India, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey and Iran have turned the corner and seen light at the end of the tunnel, considerably reduced their Covid-19 cases (India fell by 93%, US by 97% and China by 99.8% from their respective peaks) and Covid-19 deaths (India fell by 90%, US by 98% and China by 99% from their respective peaks), while Malaysia has just set new daily peaks of 9,353 cases and 135 deaths in the current fifth wave in Malaysia.

(ii) Break away from the present strategy of blind faith in lockdowns to save lives and livelihoods, especially with the growing international view that the new coronavirus cannot be eliminated and human beings and nations must learn to live with it – turning a pandemic into an endemic.

(iii) Take cognisance of the great damage to the economy by the present strategy illustrated by the concerns expressed by Malaysian and international especially the Japanese, German and Dutch business communities;

(iv) Take cognisance of the public health system at breaking-point, with a video on the dire state of the healthcare system in the Klang Valley which has gone viral; and

(v) Authorising the drafting of a new strategy and approach which is “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” to replace the National Recovery Plan; and

(vi) Immediately inviting all parliamentary parties, including the Opposition parties, to the drafting of the new strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and presenting the new strategy for endorsement when Parliament reconvenes on July 26.

Is the Cabinet up to the challenges of the times?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 13th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal170: Empat perkara yang perlu diputuskan oleh Kabinet esok

Timbalan Yang di Pertua Dewan Rakyat Mohd Rashid Hasnon mengesahkan bahawa meskipun kenyataan Pejabat Perdana Menteri bertarikh 5 Julai 2021 menyebut bahawa kerajaan bersetuju yang Parlimen akan bersidang selama lima hari bermula 26 Julai dan Dewan Negara pula akan bersidang selama tiga hari bermula 3 Ogos, Ahli Parlimen masih belum menerima notis daripada Parlimen berhubung persidangan Parlimen tersebut.

Rashid berkata, notis rasmi daripada Kabinet masih belum diterima dan Ahli Parlimen akan dimaklumkan mengenai persidangan Parlimen selepas notis tersebut diterima daripada Kabinet.

Ini bermakna, kenyataan Pejabat Perdana Menteri pada 5 Julai lalu dibuat tanpa kelulusan Kabinet dan persidangan Parlimen tersebut tidak diputuskan secara rasmi oleh Kabinet dan juga tidak diformalkan ketika Kabinet bermesyuarat pada Rabu, 6 Julai 2021.

Mesyuarat Kabinet esok akan menjadi mesyuarat terakhir Kabinet, namun jika Parlimen akan mula bersidang pada Isnin, 26 Julai, maka Ahli Parlimen sepatutnya menerima notis rasmi persidangan Parlimen esok atau paling lewat pada Khamis jika Kabinet dan Parlimen benar-benar cekap.

Banyak perkara perlu diputuskan Kabinet esok, namun terdapat sekurang-kurangnya tiga perkara yang perlu diputuskan Kabinet esok selain persidangan Parlimen pada 26 Julai 2021, antaranya:

1. Penamatan darurat pada 1 Ogos 2021 kerana ia merupakan kegagalan teruk dan strategi salah untuk perang lawan Covid-19.

2. Permohonan maaf kepada negara atas kegagalan strategi dan pendekatan yang diterapkan kerajaan dalam perang lawan pandemik Covid-19, terutamanya dalam tempoh enam bulan terakhir darurat, di mana mengakibatkan 6,260 nyawa terkorban dan jumlah kes bunuh diri yang tinggi yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini, yang mana disokong oleh tiga tinjauan antarabangsa, iaitu:

i) Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg untuk bulan Jun 2021 di mana Malaysia jatuh 35 anak tangga daripada tempat ke-16 pada bulan Januari 2021 kepada tempat ke-51 daripada 53 buah negara dengan saiz ekonomi yang lebih besar daripada ASD200 bilion;

ii) Indeks Kenormalan Global The Economist yang meletakkan Malaysia di tempat ke-50 daripada 50 negara; dan

iii) Indeks Pemulihan Covid-19 Nikkei yang diterbitkan pada 7 Julai yang meletakkan di tempat ke-114 daripada 120 negara dari segi pengurusan jangkitan, pemberian vaksin, dan mobiliti sosial.

3. Meluluskan penyusunan semula strategi baru untuk menggantikan Pelan Pemulihan Negara untuk memenangkan perang yang tidak kelihatan tetapi berbahaya terhadap pandemik Covid-19 dengan tujuan utama:

(i) Keluarkan Malaysia sebagai salah satu negara dengan prestasi paling buruk di dunia dalam pandemik Covid-19. Malaysia mengatasi lebih dari 50 negara yang mempunyai jumlah kes Covid-19 tertinggi dalam tempoh kurang dari lapan bulan – jatuh dari kedudukan ke-85 pada November tahun lalu ke kedudukan ke-33 hari ini. Kita akan mengatasi Israel untuk berada di kedudukan No.32 hari ini. Berdasarkan kadar jangkitan Covid-19 sekarang ini, Malaysia akan berada antara 30 negara terburuk di dunia dalam wabak Covid-19 dan akan mempunyai lebih daripada satu juta kes Covid-19 dan lebih daripada 10,000 kematian Covid-19 ketika kita merayakan Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 pada 31 Ogos. Negara-negara dengan prestasi terburuk sebelumnya seperti China, Amerika Syarikat, India, United Kingdom, Itali, Perancis, Sepanyol, Jerman, Turki dan Iran telah nampak tanda akan pulih, kes Covid-19 di negara tersebut berkurang dengan mendadak (India catat pengurangan sebanyak 93%, AS sebanyak 97% dan China sebanyak 99.8% dari puncak masing-masing) dan kematian Covid-19 (India catat pengurangan sebanyak 90%, AS sebanyak 98% dan China sebanyak 99% dari puncak masing-masing), sementara Malaysia baru sahaja menetapkan puncak harian baru dengan 9,353 kes dan 135 kematian dalam gelombang kelima di Malaysia ketika ini.

ii) Berpisah dari strategi kepercayaan membuta tuli terhadap pelaksanaan “lockdown” untuk menyelamatkan nyawa dan mata pencarian rakyat, lebih-lebih lagi selepas banyak negara menyatakan pandangan bahawa wabak ini tidak dapat dihapuskan dan manusia serta negara perlu belajar untuk hidup bersamanya dengan selamat – mengubah pandemik menjadi endemik.

(iii) Mengambil perhatian terhadap kerosakan besar ekonomi hasil pelaksanaan strategi semasa seperti yang digambarkan oleh kebimbangan yang dinyatakan oleh masyarakat Malaysia dan antarabangsa terutamanya komuniti perniagaan Jepun, Jerman dan Belanda;

(iv) Mengambil perhatian terhadap sistem kesihatan awam yang kini berada diambang kelumpuhan, dengan video tular mengenai keadaan sistem kesihatan yang teruk di Lembah Klang; dan

(v) Mengizinkan penyusunan strategi dan pendekatan baru yang melibat “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” untuk menggantikan Pelan Pemulihan Negara; dan

(vi) Dengan segera mengundang semua parti yang mempunyai wakil di parlimen, termasuk parti-parti Pembangkang, untuk menyusun strategi baru dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19 dan membentangkan strategi baru ini untuk disahkan ketika Parlimen bersidang pada 26 Julai.

Adakah Kabinet bersedia untuk menghadapi cabaran zaman ini?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 13 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal171 – When will Malaysia have more than half its population fully vaccinated against Covid-19, which is the first step to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic

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More than a year ago on 24th April 2020, I suggested the establishment of a Covid-19 Pandemic Study Centre to learn from the successes and mistakes of other nations so that we can be effective and efficient in our war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

But like the many constructive suggestions that I had made last year how best to fight to Covid-19 pandemic, it fell on deaf ears.

We were once some 50 positions behind China, the country where the pandemic started and which had a population 40 times that of Malaysia, in cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, but we are now 68 rankings ahead of China, as we are ranked No. 33 among countries in the world with most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, as Malaysia has 844,870 Covid-19 cases while China is ranked No. 101 with 92,095 cases.

The latest lesson from the United States on vaccination are useful for Malaysia – the staggering difference in Covid-19 cases between states with high vaccination rates and states which are lagging.

Over the past week, states in the U.S. that have fully vaccinated more than half of their residents have reported an average Covid-19 case rate that is about a third of that in states which have fully vaccinated less than half of their residents.

Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas are the only states to have fully vaccinated fewer than 35% of their residents. Average daily case rates in each state were among the 10 worst in United States last week.

Vermont leads the nation with about 66% of its population fully vaccinated — and while case rates there increased compared to last week, the state still had the lowest case rate in the United States last week, with an average of less than one new case per 100,000 people each day.

States that have fully vaccinated more than half of their residents reported an average of 2.8 new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people each day last week, compared to an average of about 7.8 cases per 100,000 people each day in states that have vaccinated less than half of their residents.

There is the further information that more than 99% of the US Covid-19 deaths in June were among unvaccinated people.

Yesterday, the Health Minister Adham Baba announced that 3,26,676 people had received their second dose of the vaccine and 7,840,034 people received their first dose.

As Malaysia has achieved less than 11% of the population fully vaccinated after four months of the national immunisation rollout, when will Malaysia be able to have more than half of the population fully vaccinated and what are the plans to accelerate this objective of the national vaccination rollout which is the first step to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic?

Community activist Dr. Mohamad Rafick Khan has blogged on the importance of the government presenting meaningful information for public consumption.

He said that in past few months, the Malaysian public had been given information which created a sense of anxiety and the feeling of hopelessness, when Malaysians wanted hope, able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and to know what the government was doing to make them safe.

He called for a serious rethink of the government communication package and strategy.

He said if the vaccination program had been rolled out based on risk groups, the death rates and ICU beds utilization rates would have come down by now.

He described the death rates and ICU beds availability as indirect indicators of the success of the vaccination program. Right now, it pointed to a mid-term failure.

Is the government prepared to enhance transparency and improve its communication content and strategy?

Yesterday, there was a 15-minute video by Projek Bangsa Malaysia featuring only audio of people said to be front-line workers, projecting an image of a “sinking” public healthcare system in the Klang Valley.

The recording is said to have been made on July 9, when there was a live stream of Klang Valley medical frontliners sharing their personal accounts anonymously.

“It’s like a ship that’s sinking, you know? People are really trying to keep the ship afloat but these people are putting holes right into the ship,” one of them says.

She adds that there is an urgent need for more equipment, especially oxygen tanks, with another individual saying that one canister needed to be shared among five other patients.

“We are replacing oxygen canisters by the hour,” another says.

In the age of social media, the Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin cannot pretend that such a video does not exist.

Malaysians expect a truthful response from the government.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 13th July, 2021)

#kerajaangagal171 — Bilakah lebih daripada separuh populasi Malaysia akan diberi vaksin sepenuhnya terhadap Covid-19, perkara ini adalah merupakan langkah pertama untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19

Lebih dari setahun yang lalu pada 24 April 2020, saya mencadangkan penubuhan Pusat Kajian Pandemik Covid-19 untuk belajar dari kejayaan dan kesilapan negara lain agar kita dapat menjadi berkesan dan cekap dalam perang kita melawan wabak Covid-19.

Tetapi seperti banyak cadangan konstruktif yang saya buat tahun lalu bagaimana cara terbaik untuk melawan wabak Covid-19, ia tidak diendahkan.

Kita pernah berada 50 kedudukan di belakang China — negara di mana wabak ini bermula dan yang mempunyai populasi 40 kali ganda lebih ramai berbanding dengan Malaysia — dalam jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19, tetapi sekarang kita 68 kedudukan di hadapan China di tempat ke-33 di antara negara-negara di dunia dengan jumlah terkumpul kes Covid-19 tertinggi, dengan 844,870 kes berbanding dengan 92,095 kes di China.

Pengajaran terbaru yang kita dapati di Amerika Syarikat amatlah berguna untuk Malaysia — negeri di AS dengan kadar vaksinasi yang tinggi menunjukkan perbezaan yang ketara berbanding dengan negeri yang lembat.

Sepanjang minggu yang lalu, negeri-negeri di A.S. yang telah memberi vaksinasi sepenuhnya kepada lebih daripada separuh penduduknya telah melaporkan kadar kes Covid-19 purata yang kira-kira satu pertiga daripada yang berlaku di negeri-negeri yang telah memberi vaksin sepenuhnya kepada kurang dari separuh penduduknya.

Hanya Alabama, Mississippi dan Arkansas yang baru memberi vaksin sepenuhnya kepada kurang daripada 35% penduduknya. Purata kadar kes harian di setiap negeri-negeri ini adalah antara 10 yang terburuk di Amerika Syarikat pada minggu lalu.

Vermont memimpin negara tersebut dengan sekitar 66% penduduknya diberi vaksin sepenuhnya – dan sementara kadar kes di sana meningkat berbanding minggu sebelumnya, negeri tersebut masih mencatatkan kadar kes terendah di Amerika Syarikat minggu lalu, dengan rata-rata kurang dari satu kes baru setiap 100,000 orang setiap hari.

Negeri-negeri yang telah memberi vaksin sepenuhnya lebih daripada separuh penduduknya melaporkan purata 2.8 kes Covid-19 baru setiap 100,000 orang setiap hari minggu lalu, berbanding purate kira-kira 7.8 kes setiap 100,000 orang setiap hari di negeri-negeri yang telah memberi vaksinasi kurang dari separuh penduduk mereka.

Terdapat maklumat lebih lanjut bahawa lebih daripada 99% kematian Covid-19 AS pada bulan Jun adalah antara orang yang tidak divaksinasi.

Semalam, Menteri Kesihatan Adham Baba mengumumkan bahawa 3,26,676 orang telah menerima dos kedua vaksin mereka dan 7,840,034 orang menerima dos pertama mereka.

Memandangkan Malaysia telah mencapai kurang dari 11% populasi yang diberi vaksin sepenuhnya setelah empat bulan pelancaran program imunisasi nasional, bilakah Malaysia akan capai lebih daripada separuh populasi sepenuhnya divaksinasi dan apakah rancangan untuk mempercepat objektif vaksinasi nasional ini pelancaran yang merupakan langkah pertama untuk memenangi perang melawan pandemi Covid-19?

Aktivis masyarakat, Dr Mohamad Rafick Khan telah menulis blog mengenai pentingnya kerajaan menyampaikan maklumat yang bermakna untuk penggunaan awam.

Beliau mengatakan bahawa dalam beberapa bulan terakhir ini, masyarakat Malaysia telah diberi maklumat yang menimbulkan rasa cemas dan perasaan putus asa, ketika rakyat Malaysia menginginkan harapan, dapat melihat cahaya di hujung terowong dan untuk mengetahui apa yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan untuk memastikan keselamatan rakyat.

Beliau menyeru supaya program dan strategi komunikasi kerajaan dirangka semula.

Beliau mengatakan sekiranya program vaksinasi ini dilaksanakan mengikut kumpulan risiko, kadar kematian dan kadar penggunaan katil unit rawatan rapi sepatutnya sudah mula menurun.

Beliau menggunakan kadar kematian dan ketersediaan katil unit rawatan rapi sebagai petunjuk tidak langsung kejayaan program vaksinasi. Sekarang ini, ia menunjukkan kegagalan jangka panjang.

Apakah kerajaan bersedia untuk meningkatkan ketelusan dan menambah baik kandungan dan strategi komunikasinya?

Semalam, terdapat video berdurasi 15 minit oleh Projek Bangsa Malaysia yang memaparkan audio seseorang yang dikatakan sebagai petugas barisan depan, menggambarkan kegagalan sistem kesihatan awam di Lembah Klang.

Rakaman itu dikatakan telah dibuat pada 9 Julai, ketika terdapat siaran langsung barisan perubatan perubatan Lembah Klang yang berkongsi kisah peribadi mereka.

“Seakan-akan sebuah kapal yang sedang tenggelam, tahu? Ramai yang cuba untuk memastikan kapal ini terus terapung, tetapi terdapat mereka yang terus menebuk lubang ke atas kapal ini,” kata seorang daripada mereka.

Beliau menambah lagi bahawa terdapat keperluan mendesak untuk lebih banyak perkakasan, terutamanya tabung oksigen, dengan seorang lagi individu mengatakan yang satu tabung oksigen kini perlu dikongsi bersama lima orang pesakit.

“Kami mengganti tabung oksigen setiap jam,” kata yang lain.

Di zaman media sosial, Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin tidak boleh berpura-pura bahawa video seperti ini tidak wujud.

Rakyat Malaysia mengharapkan respons yang jujur dari kerajaan.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 13 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal172 –  Malaysia is facing an emergency, not from Covid-19 virus but from a kakistocracy which is indifferent whether Malaysia hurtles down the trajectory towards a failed state

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Malaysia is facing an emergency, not from Covid-19 virus, but from a kakistocracy which is indifferent whether Malaysia hurtles down the trajectory towards a failed state.

The report that there were 11,079 new Covid-19 cases today, the highest daily count ever, should put to rest once and for all the far-fetched claims of those who professed that the emergency proclaimed on January 11, 2021 was Malaysia’s salvation from the Covid-19 pandemic.

We reached 11,079 Covid-19 cases in one day yesterday when we took nine months to exceed the first 11,079 Covid-19 cases last year.

When emergency was declared on January 11, 2021, there were 135,992 Covid-19 cases (10/1/2021). Now the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia is 855,949 cases.

We took nine months to reach first 100,000 Covid-19 cases, but at the present rate of infection, we will complete the eighth 100,000 cases to break the 900,000-mark in eleven days by 18th July and break the million-mark around the time when Parliament is reconvened on July 26, 2021.

But if we ask medical front-liners, they will say that the daily Covid-19 caseload is an undercount because of the wide community infection and the serious under-testing in Malaysia.

Two days ago, I issued a media statement asking whether India’s oxygen crisis will come to Malaysia.

Today, there is a report that the Malaysian Agro Exposition Park (MAEPS) quarantine and treatment centre (PKRC 2.0) in Serdang, Selangor, which has more than 5,000 beds, is in a fix due to a shortage of oxygen supply.

This morning, I said that the Cabinet meeting tomorrow will have its plate full.

I reiterate my call to the Cabinet to decide on at least five things tomorrow:

1. The convening of Parliament on July 26, 2021 and full debate on the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.

2. The ending of the emergency on August 1, 2021 as it is a dismal failure and wrong strategy to fight the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

3. An apology to the nation for the failure of the government strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the last six months of the emergency, causing a toll of 6,260 deaths (as of yesterday) and unprecedented high number of suicides, and supported by three international surveys, namely:

i. June 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking with Malaysia falling 35 places from its 16th ranking in January 2021 to 51st position in June 2021 edition out of 53 economies of more than US$200 billion;

ii. Economist’s global normalcy index which placed Malaysia in the last 50th position out 50 countries; and

iii. Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery Index on 7th July which ranks Malaysia No. 114 out of 120 countries on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility.

4. Authorise the drafting of a new strategy to replace the National Recovery Plan to win the invisible but lethal war against Covid-19 pandemic by breaking from the present strategy of blind faith in lockdowns; and

5. Immediately invite all parliamentary parties, including the Opposition parties, to the drafting of the new strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and presenting the new strategy for endorsement when Parliament reconvenes on July 26, 2021.

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 13th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal172 – Malaysia berhadapan dengan darurat bukan kerana virus Covid-19 tetapi kerana sebuah kakistokrasi yang tidak peduli sama ada Malaysia telah terjerumus dalam sebuah trajektori menuju negara gagal

Malaysia berhadapan dengan darurat bukan kerana virus Covid-19 tetapi kerana sebuah kakistokrasi yang tidak peduli sama ada Malaysia telah terjerumus dalam sebuah trajektori ke arah menjadi negara gagal.

Laporan bahawa terdapat 11,079 kes baharu Covid-19 hari ini, angka tertinggi yang pernah dicatatkan sejak pandemik itu melanda negara, mematikan segala dakwaan bahawa darurat yang diumumkan pada 11 Januari 2021 adalah jalan penyelesaian terbaik untuk Malaysia keluar daripada krisis kesihatan ini.

Kita mencapai 11,079 kes Covid-19 dalam tempoh satu hari sedangkan kita mengambil masa sembilan bulan untuk melangkaui angka 11,079 kes Covid-19 pertama tahun lalu.

Ketika darurat diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021, terdapat 135,992 kes Covid-19 (10/1/2021). Kini jumlah kumulatif kes Covid-19 di Malaysia adalah 855,949 kes.

Kita mengambil masa sembilan bulan untuk mencapai 100,000 kes Covid-19 pertama, tetapi pada kadar jangkitan sekarang, kita akan melengkapkan kes 100,000 yang kelapan untuk memecahkan angka 900,000 dalam sebelas hari pada 18 Julai dan memecahkan angka sejuta ketika Parlimen bersidang semula pada 26 Julai 2021.

Tetapi jika kita bertanya kepada petugas barisan hadapan perubatan, mereka akan mengatakan bahawa jumlah kes harian Covid-19 yang dicatatkan adalah jumlah yang rendah kerana jangkitan yang meluas dalam kalangan masyarakat dan pelaksanaan saringan yang rendah di Malaysia.

Dua hari yang lalu, saya mengeluarkan kenyataan media yang menanyakan adakah krisis oksigen yang berlaku di India akan turut berlaku di Malaysia.

Hari ini, terdapat laporan yang menyatakan bahawa Pusat Kuarantin dan Rawatan Covid-19 (PKRC) Taman Ekspo Pertanian Malaysia Serdang (MAEPS) di Serdang, Selangor, yang memiliki lebih dari 5,000 katil, sedang mengalami kekurangan bekalan oksigen.

Pagi ini, saya menyatakan bahawa Kabinet perlu menyelesaikan banyak perkara dalam mesyuaratnya esok.

Saya mengulangi gesaan saya kepada Kabinet untuk memutuskan sekurang-kurangnya lima perkara esok:

1. Persidangan Parlimen pada 26 Julai 2021 dan perbahasan penuh berhubung krisis pandemik Covid-19.

2. Penamatan darurat pada 1 Ogos 2021 kerana ia membawa kegagalan teruk dan merupakan strategi salah untuk perang lawan Covid-19.

3. Permohonan maaf kepada negara atas kegagalan strategi dan pendekatan yang diterapkan kerajaan dalam perang lawan pandemik Covid-19, terutamanya dalam tempoh enam bulan terakhir darurat, yang mana mengakibatkan 6,260 nyawa terkorban dan jumlah kes bunuh diri yang tinggi yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini, yang mana disokong oleh tiga tinjauan antarabangsa, iaitu:

i) Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg untuk bulan Jun 2021 di mana Malaysia jatuh 35 anak tangga daripada tempat ke-16 pada bulan Januari 2021 kepada tempat ke-51 daripada 53 buah negara dengan saiz ekonomi yang lebih besar daripada ASD200 bilion;

ii) Indeks Kenormalan Global The Economist yang meletakkan Malaysia di tempat ke-50 daripada 50 negara; dan

iii) Indeks Pemulihan Covid-19 Nikkei yang diterbitkan pada 7 Julai yang meletakkan di tempat ke-114 daripada 120 negara dari segi pengurusan jangkitan, pemberian vaksin, dan mobiliti sosial.

4. Meluluskan penyusunan strategi baru untuk menggantikan Pelan Pemulihan Negara untuk memenangkan perang yang tidak dapat dilihat tetapi amat berbahaya terhadap pandemik Covid-19 dengan membebaskan negara dari strategi kepercayaan membuta tuli terhadap pelaksanaan “lockdown”; dan

5. Segera mengundang semua parti yang mempunyai wakil di parlimen, termasuk parti-parti Pembangkang, untuk menyusun strategi baru dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19 dan membentangkan strategi baru ini untuk disahkan ketika Parlimen bersidang pada 26 Julai.

(Kenyataan Media (3) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 13 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal173 – Cabinet today should follow TMJ’s advice  of no politicking and focus on health and economic crisis by inviting all leaders of political parties to a  Roundtable Conference on the Covid-19 pandemic

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The Cabinet today should follow the advice of the Johore Crown Prince,

Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim of no politicking and focus on health and economic crisis by inviting all leaders of political parties to a Roundtable Conference on the

Covid-19 pandemic.

In breaking into the five-figure daily Covid-19 caseload yesterday , Malaysia became the top 13th country in the world in terms of daily new Covid-19 cases – a measure of the enormity of the failure of the government’s emergency measures to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, when two months before the emergency on January 11, 2021, Malaysia was ranked No. 85 in cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

We have overtaken 53 countries and are now ranked No. 32 with 855,949 Covid-19 cases and 6,385 Covid-19 deaths.

By any measure, micro or macro, the Muhyiddin Cabinet has failed the nation in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and should honourably resign especially as it could not demonstrate that it has the confidence of a majority of Members of Parliament.

But Malaysians are prepared to put all political considerations aside to focus single-mindedly on the health and economic crisis facing Malaysia provided the

Cabinet is capable of rising up to the occasion.

If the ignominy of Malaysia becoming the world’s top 13th country in daily Covid-19 caseloads is incapable of lifting the Muhyiddin Cabinet to higher standards to turn the tides of defeat to win the war against the Covixd-19 pandemic, nothing will.

This is why today’s Cabinet meeting is critical – not only for the Cabinet but also for the nation.

I call on the Cabinet to rise to the occasion and perform the five tasks I outlined yesterday, viz:

1. The convening of Parliament on July 26, 2021 and a full debate on the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.

2. The ending of the emergency on August 1, 2021 as it is a dismal failure and wrong strategy to fight the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

3. An apology to the nation for the failure of the government strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the last six months of the emergency, causing a toll of 6,260 deaths (as of yesterday) and unprecedented high number of suicides, and supported by three international surveys, namely:

i. June 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking with Malaysia falling 35 places from its 16th ranking in January 2021 to 51st position in June 2021 edition out of 53 economies of more than US$200 billion;

ii. Economist’s global normalcy index which placed Malaysia in the last 50th position out 50 countries; and

iii. Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery Index on 7th July which ranks Malaysia No. 114 out of 120 countries on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility.

4. Authorise the drafting of a new strategy to replace the National Recovery Plan to win the invisible but lethal war against Covid-19 pandemic by breaking from the present strategy of blind faith in lockdowns; and

5. Immediately invite all parliamentary political parties, including the Opposition parties, to a Covid-19 Pandemic Roundtable to draft a new strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and to present the new strategy for endorsement by Parliament when it reconvenes on July 26, 2021.

The Cabinet should also work closely with the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on health, science and innovation which is meeting on July 23 to draft a new strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 14th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal173 — Mesyuarat Kabinet hari ini perlu mengambil kira nasihat TMJ untuk berhenti berpolitik dan menumpukan usaha kepada krisis kesihatan dan ekonomi dengan menjemput semua pemimpin parti politik ke Persidangan Meja Bulat mengenai Pandemik Covid-19

Mesyuarat Kabinet hari ini perlu mengambil kira nasihat Tengku Mahkota Johor, Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, untuk berhenti berpolitik dan menumpukan usaha kepada krisis kesihatan dan ekonomi dengan menjemput semua pemimpin parti politik ke Persidangan Meja Bulat mengenai Pandemik Covid-19.

Dengan mencecah lima angka jumlah kes baharu Covid-19 semalam, Malaysia berada di tempat ke-13 dengan kadar kes baharu tertinggi di dunia — satu ukuran betapa besarnya kegagalan pengisytiharan darurat kerajaan untuk melawan wabak ini, sedangkan dua bulan sebelum darurat diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021, Malaysia berada di tempat ke-85 dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul berbanding dengan negara-negara lain di seluruh dunia.

Kita telah mengatasi kedudukan 53 buah negara dan kini berada di tempat ke-32 dengan 855,949 kes terkumpul dan 6,385 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Tidak kira apa pun ukurannya, baik mikro mahupun makro, kerajaan Muhyiddin ini telah gagal dalam perang melawan wabak ini, dan mereka patut mengundurkan diri secara terhormat, terutamanya apabila mereka gagal menunjukkan yang mereka masih mempunyai sokongan majoriti ahli-ahli Parlimen.

Tetapi, rakyat Malaysia bersedia untuk mengetepikan pertimbangan politik untuk menumpukan semua usaha kepada krisis kesihatan dan ekonomi yang dihadapi oleh negara, dengan syarat, Kabinet juga bersedia untuk berbuat demikian.

Sekiranya penghinaan di mana Malaysia kini menjadi negara di tempat ke-13 dengan peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 di dunia ini tidak mampu untuk memberikan kesedaran kepada Kabinet Muhyiddin untuk mengubah hala tuju dan mengalahkan wabak Covid-19 ini, tidak ada apa-apa perkara lain yang boleh mengubah mereka.

Kerana itulah mesyuarat Kabinet hari ini kritikal — bukan sahaja kepada Kabinet itu sendiri, tetapi juga untuk seluruh negara.

Saya seru Kabinet untuk menjalankan lima tugas yang cadangkan semalam, iaitu:

1. Memanggil persidangan Parlimen pada 26 Julai 2021 dengan perbahasan penuh berhubung krisis pandemik Covid-19.

2. Penamatan darurat pada 1 Ogos 2021 kerana ia membawa kegagalan teruk dan jelas merupakan satu strategi yang salah untuk melawan Covid-19.

3. Permohonan maaf kepada negara atas kegagalan strategi dan pendekatan yang diterapkan kerajaan dalam perang lawan pandemik Covid-19, terutamanya dalam tempoh enam bulan terakhir darurat, yang telah mengakibatkan 6,260 nyawa terkorban dan jumlah kes bunuh diri yang tinggi yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini, yang dibuktikan oleh tiga tinjauan penerbitan antarabangsa:

i) Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg untuk bulan Jun 2021 di mana Malaysia jatuh 35 anak tangga daripada tempat ke-16 pada bulan Januari 2021 kepada tempat ke-51 daripada 53 buah negara dengan saiz ekonomi yang lebih besar daripada ASD200 bilion;

ii) Indeks Kenormalan Global The Economist yang meletakkan Malaysia di tempat ke-50 daripada 50 negara; dan

iii) Indeks Pemulihan Covid-19 Nikkei yang diterbitkan pada 7 Julai yang meletakkan di tempat ke-114 daripada 120 negara dari segi pengurusan jangkitan, pemberian vaksin, dan mobiliti sosial.

4. Meluluskan penyusunan strategi baru untuk menggantikan Pelan Pemulihan Negara untuk menang dalam perang yang tidak dapat dilihat tetapi amat berbahaya terhadap Covid-19 dengan membebaskan negara dari strategi kepercayaan membuta tuli terhadap pelaksanaan “sekatan pergerakan” semata-mata; dan

5. Segera mengundang semua parti yang mempunyai wakil di parlimen, termasuk parti-parti Pembangkang, untuk menyusun strategi baru dalam perang melawan Covid-19 dan membentangkan strategi ini untuk diluluskan Parlimen semasa persidangan pada 26 Julai.

Kabinet juga perlu bekerjasama dengan Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen mengenai Kesihatan, Sains, dan Inovasi yang akan bermesyuarat pada 23 Julai untuk merangka strategi baharu dalam memerangi Covid-19.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 14 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal174 – Yesterday, Malaysia  became the world’s top 13th country for  daily new Covid-19 cases and world’s top 10th country for daily Covid-19 deaths

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Yesterday, Malaysia became the world’s top 13th country for daily new Covid-19 cases and world’s top 10th country for daily Covid-19 deaths.

Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah expects Covid-19 cases to continue increasing over the next fortnight before stabilising, because of variants of concern, such as the Delta strain, which he said had been wreaking havoc in the Klang Valley.

If Noor Hisham is right, then Malaysia would break into the world’s Top 10 countries for daily new Covid-19 cases. Will Malaysia be among the world’s Top 5 countries for daily new Covid-19 deaths?

At present, the world’s top 13 countries for daily new Covid-19 cases are:

1. Indonesia – 47,899 cases

2. Brazil – 45,094

3. Spain – 43,960

4. India – 40,215

5. UK – 36,660

6. USA – 28,923

7. Russia – 24,702

8. Iran – 22,750

9. Argentina – 20,023

10. Colombia – 17,532

11. South Africa- 12,535

12. Bangladesh- 12,198

13. Malaysia – 11,079

The world’s top 10 countries yesterday for the daily new Covid-19 deaths are:

1. Brazil – 1,613

2. Indonesia – 864

3. Russia – 780

4. South Africa – 633

5. Colombia – 504

6. Argentina – 385

7. USA – 307

8. Bangladesh – 203

9. Iran – 166

10. Malaysia 125

Malaysia does not want to be in such leagues.

At one time, Malaysia was some 50 positions behind China in the number of Covid-19 cases. But we are now ranked No. 22 in the world with 855,949 cumulative total of Covid-19 cases and 6,385 Covid-19 deaths, while China is ranked No. 101 with 92,119 Covid-19 cases and 4,636 Covid-19 deaths.

Even the United States of America, for one year the worst country in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic, is catching up with Malaysia in new daily Covid-19 cases and deaths.

I believe Malaysia is capable of doing better to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control – but we need a new strategy to fight the invisible but lethal war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 14th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal174 — Semalam, jumlah kes baharu Covid-19 dan jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia adalah yang ke-13 dan yang ke-10 tertinggi di dunia

Semalam, jumlah kes baharu Covid-19 dan jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia adalah yang ke-13 dan yang ke-10 tertinggi di dunia.

Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Noor Hisham Abdullah menjangkakan yang kes Covid-19 ini akan terus meningkat dalam masa dua minggu yang akan datang sebelum mula stabil, kerana pelbagai varian koronavirus yang membimbangkan, seperti varian Delta, yang beliau katakan sedang memporak-perandakan keadaan di Lembah Klang.

Sekiranya apa yang dikatakan Noor Hisham ini tepat, maka negara kita akan menjadi salah satu daripada sepuluh negara dengan jumlah kes harian tertinggi. Adakah negara kita juga akan menjadi salah satu daripada lima negara teratas dari segi kematian akibat Covid-19?

Buat masa ini, 13 negara dengan jumlah kes baharu tertinggi adalah:

1. Indonesia – 47,899 kes

2. Brazil – 45,094

3. Sepanyol – 43,960

4. India – 40,215

5. UK – 36,660

6. Amerika Syarikat – 28,923

7. Rusia – 24,702

8. Iran – 22,750

9. Argentina – 20,023

10. Colombia – 17,532

11. Afrika Selatan- 12,535

12. Bangladesh- 12,198

13. Malaysia – 11,079

10 negara dengan jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 yang tertinggi pula adalah:

1. Brazil – 1,613

2. Indonesia – 864

3. Rusia – 780

4. Afrika Selatan – 633

5. Colombia – 504

6. Argentina – 385

7. Amerika Syarikat – 307

8. Bangladesh – 203

9. Iran – 166

10. Malaysia 125

Kita tidak mahu negara kita berada dalam kedudukan sebegini.

Pada suatu masa dahulu, Malaysia berada 50 kedudukan di belakang China dari jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19. Tetapi kini jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 di negara kita adalah yang ke-32 tertinggi di dunia, dengan 855,949 kes dan 6,385 kematian akibat Covid-19. Manakala China pula berada di tempat ke-101 dengan 92,119 kes terkumpul dan 4,636 kematian.

Malah, Amerika Syarikat, yang untuk setahun lepas, merupakan negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 ini, kini sedang beransur bertambah baik berbanding dengan situasi di Malaysia.

Saya percaya yang Malaysia boleh melakukan dengan lebih baik untuk mengawal penularan wabak ini — tetapi kita memerlukan strategi baharu untuk memenangi perang halimunan dalam melawan wabak yang membawa maut ini.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 14 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal175 – Is there  any Minister who dare to deny that Malaysia is  likely to pass the million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases by the end of this month and what is the government doing about a new strategy to prepare Malaysians to live with the coronavirus?

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In the first week of May, the Indonesian Health Ministry advised Indonesians to stay home and tighten their 3M health protocols against Covid-19 infection (masks, hand washing and maintaining social distancing) ahead of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri holidays warning them to learn from India and Malaysia: “Learn from India and Malaysia for surely we don’t want Indonesia to face the same problem”.

Two months later, Indonesia had overtaken Malaysia and India as a worst-performing nation in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Yesterday, Indonesia had 54,417 new Covid-19 cases and 991 Covid-19 deaths while India had 41,854 new Covid-19 cases and 580 Covid-19 deaths and Malaysia had 11,618 new Covid-19 cases and 118 Covid-19 deaths.

The great difference between India and Malaysia is that the former is on a sharp decline in the Covid-19 curve for Covid-19 cases while Malaysia is on the upsurge.

India fell from its peak of daily Covid-19 cases of 414,433 cases on May 6, 2021 to 41,854 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, a phenomenal drop of 90%, while Malaysia established a new peak yesterday with 11,618 cases.

A virologist in Universiti Sains Malaysia has warned that the daily Covid-19 infections could double up to nearly 20,000 a day within the next two weeks, given the number of cases caused by more infectious Delta variant.

Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah also expects Covid-19 cases to continue increasing over the next fortnight before stabilising, because of variants of concern, such as the Delta strain, which he said had been wreaking havoc in the Klang Valley.

Yesterday, Malaysia with 11,618 new Covid-19 cases, maintained its position as the world’s top 13th country for daily new Covid-19 cases after Brazil (57,664 cases), Indonesia (54,517), UK (42,302), India (41,854), USA (35,267), Spain (26, 390), Russia (23,827), Iran (23,371), Argentina (19,697), South Africa (17,480), Colombia (17,230) and Bangladesh (12,383).

With 118 new Covid-19 deaths yesterday, Malaysia is also the world’s top 13th country for daily Covid-19 deaths, after Brazil (1,574 deaths), Indonesia (991), Russia (786), Argentina (610), India (580), Colombia (498), South Africa (453), USA (359), Mexico (219), Bangladesh (210), Iran (184) and Peru (146).

With cumulative total of 867,567 Covid-19 cases, we are now ranked No. 32 among nations with most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, when eight months ago, we were ranked No. 85 – overtaking 53 countries in the process.

In “Total cases per 1 million population” index for July 13, 2021 in the Our World in Data website, Malaysia at 26,445 is the highest in Asia, ASEAN and the Pacific – Singapore 10,724, Indonesia 9,562; Myanmar 3,699, Thailand 5,067; Philippines 13,521, Cambodia 3,750, Brunei 644, Vietnam 363, Laos 398, China 64, India 22,424, Japan 6,522, South Korea 3,353, Hong Kong 1,594, Taiwan 642, Australia 1,232 and New Zealand 578.

By any measure, macro and micro, Malaysia is among the world’s worst-performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic.

It is shocking that this is a fact which the Cabinet has refused to admit.

Is there any Minister who dare to deny that we are likely to pass the million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases by the end of this month and that when Malaysia marks the 58th National Day on August 31, we would have more than 10,000 Covid-19 deaths, not to mention the high rate of suicides in the country as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Did the Cabinet discuss this shocking prospect, what did the Cabinet decide and what is the government doing about a new strategy to prepare Malaysians to live with the coronavirus?

I waited for the outcome of the Cabinet meeting yesterday, hoping that it would mark a new start and new strategy in the invisible but lethal war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

But there was none – only a short statement after the Cabinet meeting expressing the unanimous support of the Ministers (including the nine UMNO Ministers) for the Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin.

It was a snub for the UMNO President and the UMNO Supreme Council, but it showed that the Cabinet could not rise to the challenge of the existential threat to the nation posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, though they are very capable of responding to the existential threat to the Cabinet posed by the UMNO President and UMNO Supreme Council.

When will the Cabinet set an example to stop politicking and focus on turning the tides of defeat to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and plan for Malaysia to return to normalcy as is happening in other countries?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 15th July, 2021)

#kerajaangagal175 — Adakah mana-mana Menteri yang berani menafikan bahawa Malaysia berkemungkinan akan melepasi angka sejuta kes Covid-19 terkumpul pada akhir bulan ini dan apa yang sedang dilakukan oleh kerajaan mengenai strategi baru untuk mempersediakan rakyat untuk hidup bersama dengan wabak ini?

Dalam minggu pertama bulan Mei, Kementerian Kesihatan Indonesia menasihatkan orang Indonesia untuk kekal berada di rumah dan mematuhi protokol kesihatan 3M mereka terhadap jangkitan Covid-19 (memakai topeng pelitup muka, mencuci tangan dan menjaga jarak sosial) menjelang cuti Hari Raya Aidilfitri yang memperingatkan mereka untuk belajar dari India dan Malaysia: “Belajarlah dari India dan Malaysia kerana kita pasti tidak mahu Indonesia menghadapi masalah yang sama”.

Dua bulan kemudian, Indonesia telah mengatasi Malaysia dan India sebagai negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan Covid-19.

Semalam, Indonesia mencatatkan 54,417 kes Covid-19 baru dan 991 kematian akibat Covid-19 sementara India mencatatkan 41,854 kes Covid-19 baru dan 580 kematian akibat Covid-19 manakala Malaysia mencatatkan 11,618 kes Covid-19 baru dan 118 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Perkara yang membezakan India dan Malaysia adalah hakikat di mana India mencatatkan penurunan mendadak kes Covid-19 sedangkan Malaysia pula sedang mencatatkan peningkatan.

Jumlah kes di India jatuh dari kemuncak 414,433 kes pada 6 Mei 2021 kepada 41,854 kes Covid-19 baru semalam, penurunan 90% yang luar biasa, sementara Malaysia mencapai kemuncak baharu semalam dengan 11,618 kes.

Seorang pakar virologi di Universiti Sains Malaysia telah memberi amaran bahawa jangkitan Covid-19 harian boleh meningkat dua kali ganda hingga hampir 20,000 sehari dalam dua minggu ke depan, memandangkan jumlah kes disebabkan oleh varian Delta yang lebih menular.

Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Noor Hisham Abdullah juga menjangkakan kes Covid-19 akan terus meningkat dalam dua minggu berikutnya sebelum stabil, kerana varian yang membimbangkan, seperti varian Delta, yang menurutnya telah menyebabkan malapetaka di Lembah Klang.

Semalam, Malaysia dengan 11,618 kes Covid-19 baru, mengekalkan kedudukannya sebagai negara ke-13 teratas di dunia dengan kes Covid-19 baru harian tertinggi selepas Brazil (57,664 kes), Indonesia (54,517), UK (42,302), India (41,854), Amerika Syarikat (35,267), Sepanyol (26, 390), Rusia (23,827), Iran (23,371), Argentina (19,697), Afrika Selatan (17,480), Kolombia (17,230) dan Bangladesh (12,383).

Dengan 118 kematian Covid-19 baru semalam, Malaysia juga merupakan negara ke-13 teratas di dunia untuk kematian Covid-19 harian, di belakang Brazil (1,574 kematian), Indonesia (991), Rusia (786), Argentina (610), India (580) , Colombia (498), Afrika Selatan (453), Amerika Syarikat (359), Mexico (219), Bangladesh (210), Iran (184) dan Peru (146).

Dengan jumlah kumulatif sebanyak 867,567 kes Covid-19, kita sekarang berada di tangga ke-32 di antara negara-negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes kumulatif Covid-19, sedangkan lapan bulan yang lalu, kita berada di tempat ke-85 — mengatasi kedudukan 53 negara dalam tempoh ini.

Dalam indeks “Jumlah kes per sejuta penduduk” untuk 13 Julai 2021 di laman web Our World in Data, Malaysia dengan 26,445 kes per sejuta penduduk adalah yang tertinggi di Asia, ASEAN dan kawasan serantau Pasifik — Singapura 10,724, Indonesia 9,562; Myanmar 3,699, Thailand 5,067; Filipina 13,521, Kemboja 3,750, Brunei 644, Vietnam 363, Laos 398, China 64, India 22,424, Jepun 6,522, Korea Selatan 3,353, Hong Kong 1,594, Taiwan 642, Australia 1,232 dan New Zealand 578.

Tidak kira apa pun ukurannya, baik mikro mahupun makro, Malaysia adalah antara negara dengan prestasi paling buruk di dunia dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19.

Sangat mengejutkan apabila perkara ini enggan diperakui oleh Kabinet.

Adakah mana-mana Menteri yang berani menafikan bahawa Malaysia berkemungkinan akan melepasi angka sejuta kes Covid-19 terkumpul pada akhir bulan ini dan apabila kita akan menyambut Hari Kebangsaan ke-64 pada 31 Ogos yang akan datang, kita akan mempunyai lebih daripada 10,000 kematian akibat Covid-19, tanpa mengira lagi kematian akibat peningkatan kejadian bunuh diri yang disebabkan oleh pandemik ini?

Adakah Kabinet membincangkan perkara ini? Apakah yang diputuskan oleh Kabinet? Dan apakah yang kerajaan sedang lakukan mengenai strategi baharu untuk mempersediakan rakyat Malaysia untuk hidup bersama dengan selamat dengan pandemik ini?

Saya menunggu hasil mesyuarat Kabinet semalam, dengan harapan ia dapat menandakan permulaan baru dan strategi baru dalam perang melawan Covid-19.

Tetapi tidak ada — hanya pernyataan pendek selepas mesyuarat Kabinet menyatakan sokongan sebulat suara para Menteri (termasuk sembilan Menteri UMNO) untuk Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin.

Perkara itu hanyalah merupakan satu penghinaan kepada Presiden UMNO dan Majlis Tertinggi UMNO, tetapi lebih penting lagi, ia menunjukkan sebuah Kabinet yang tidak bersedia untuk menumpukan usahanya kepada cabaran eksistensial yang dihadapi oleh negara yang dibawa oleh pandemik Covid-19 ini, sebaliknya hanya tertumpu kepada usaha untuk memberikan respons kepada cabaran terhadap Kabinet yang dilontarkan oleh Presiden dan Majlis Tertinggi UMNO.

Bilakah Kabinet akan mula menunjukkan tauladan untuk berhenti berpolitik dan menumpukan usaha mereka untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 dan merancang untuk mengembalikan Malaysia ke arah kenormalan seperti yang sedang berlaku di negara-negara lain?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 15 Julai 2021)

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#kerajaangagal176 –  The Muhyiddin Cabinet should not paint a false and dishonest picture of the Covid-19 pandemic or claim that the  government strategy, including the six-month emergency, was not  a dismal failure in the war against Covid-19 pandemic

Deputy Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob dropped a bombshell yesterday when he said the entire country is expected to move into Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan in early August based on the performance of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Program (NIP) where individuals who completed two doses of vaccine exceeded the 10 percent threshold set for the country.

Under the National Recovery Plan announced by the Prime Minister on June 15,  the transition from  Phase 1 to Phase 2  is after the  threshold values for the following  three main indicators are met, viz:

1. Number of daily Covid-19 cases drop to below 4,000

2. Bed usage in intensive care units (ICU) at moderate level

3. 10 percent of the population received two doses of vaccine.

A virologist in Universiti Sains Malaysia has warned that the daily Covid-19 infections could rise  to nearly 20,000 a day within the next two weeks, given the number of cases caused by more infectious Delta variant.

Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah also expects Covid-19 cases to continue increasing over the next fortnight before stabilising, because of variants of concern, such as the Delta strain, which had been wreaking havoc in the Klang Valley.

As for bed usage in intensive care units (ICU), the stories and pictures of the Klang

Valley hospitals struggling to cope with rising number of Covid-19 patients, and the spectre of the oxygen crisis in India coming to Malaysia, are the best answer.

How can the whole country under   the National Recovery Plan enter Phase 2 in August when the daily Covd-19 caseload will be more than treble or quadruple the first threshold of less than 4,000 cases daily and the Klang Valley hospitals are on breaking-point in ICU usage?

The Muhyiddin Cabinet should not paint a false and dishonest picture of the Covid-19 pandemic or claim  that the  government strategy, including the six-month emergency, was not  a dismal failure in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

Honesty is the best policy and the government should own up to its mistakes in pursuing a failed strategy in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, for the people can forgive mistakes but not dishonesty.

I call on the Prime Minister, Muhyddin Yassin, to call off the police harassment of healthcare workers in particular those who have supported the campaign for the plight of contract doctors in government service.

The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) President,  Dr. Subramaniam Muniandy have received complaints from doctors involved in the Code Black and Black Monday campaigns that they are being investigated by the police, and are afraid and traumatised by the investigations.

The government should not turn a public health issue into a national security issue, and this applies to the 15-minute  video by Projek Bangsa Malaysia featuring only audio of people said to be front-line workers, projecting an image of a “sinking” public healthcare system in the Klang Valley.

In the age of social media, the government must have a new and more effective communications strategy  and  cannot pretend that such a video does not exist.

There must be a truthful response from the government to the video.

(Media Statement (2)  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 15th  July , 2021)

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#kerajaangagal177 – The five-day meeting of Parliament from July 26 is not a proper Parliamentary meeting but just a special briefing session, with a series of Ministerial statements on the Covid-19 pandemic

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Yesterday evening, I received email notice from Parliament about reconvening of Parliament on July 26.

The five-day meeting of Parliament from July 26 is not a proper Parliamentary meeting but just a special briefing session with a series of Ministerial statements on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia is providing the world the example of a muffled and emasculated Parliament.

Firstly, there would be no Question Time, which under Dewan Rakyat Standing Orders 22(2) would require Members of Parliament to give notice of at least 10 working days – and there are no 10 working days before the July 26 meeting.

Secondly, no Opposition motions would be allowed.

The Emergency Proclamation and Ordinances would be tabled in Parliament but there is no vote on the Emergency Proclamation and Ordinances.

According to the parliamentary notice yesterday, the agenda is just a series of Ministerial statements on the National Recovery Plan, Vaccination Programme, Emergency Implementation and the Economic Assistance Packages.

The notice said that the Speaker would allow MPs to ask for clarification and give views during the Ministerial statements, but will MPs be allowed to debate and vote on the respective Ministerial statements?

If MPs can convene to meet, why can’t Parliament hold an ordinary Parliamentary meeting in accordance with normal parliamentary practices and the Dewan Rakyat Standing Orders for the past six decades?

The parliamentary notice is in fact a violation of the Dewan Rakyat Standing Orders.

In this connection, it is shocking to read of the Utusan Malaysia report quoting the Senate President Rais Yatim as saying that any attempt to unseat Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin via a no-confidence motion in the coming Dewan Rakyat sitting will not be allowed.

Has Rais Yatim become the de facto Parliament Speaker?

This is indeed a black day for Parliament.

Is this muffled and emasculated Parliament the government’s answer to the repeated decree of the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Rulers for Parliament to be convened before the emergency ends on August 1?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 16th July , 2021)

#kerajaangagal177 – Sidang Parlimen selama lima hari bermula 26 Julai bukanlah sidang Parlimen sebenar, sebaliknya hanya satu sesi taklimat khas dengan penerangan Menteri berhubung wabak Covid-19

Semalam, saya menerima notis e-mel dari Parlimen mengenai sidang Parlimen pada 26 Julai.

Sidang Parlimen selama lima hari bermula 26 Julai bukanlah satu sidang Parlimen sebenar, sebaliknya hanya sesi taklimat khas dengan penerangan Menteri berhubung dengan pandemik Covid-19

Malaysia memberikan contoh kepada dunia sebuah Parlimen yang dilemahkan dan dilumpuhkan.

Pertama, tidak akan ada Waktu Pertanyaan Menteri, yang menurut Perintah Tetap Dewan Rakyat 22 (2) menghendaki Ahli Parlimen memberikan notis sekurang-kurangnya 10 hari bekerja – dan tidak ada 10 hari bekerja sebelum sidang pada 26 Julai.

Kedua, usul Pembangkang tidak akan dibenarkan.

Proklamasi dan Ordinan Darurat akan dibentangkan di Parlimen tetapi tidak ada undian mengenai Proklamasi dan Ordinan Darurat.

Menurut notis parlimen semalam, agenda tersebut hanyalah melibatkan siri penerangan Menteri mengenai Pelan Pemulihan Negara, Program Vaksinasi, Pelaksanaan Darurat dan Pakej Bantuan Ekonomi.

Notis itu menyatakan bahawa Speaker akan membenarkan Ahli Parlimen meminta penjelasan dan memberi pandangan semasa sesi penerangan Menteri, tetapi adakah Ahli Parlimen dibenarkan untuk berbahas dan mengundi penerangan Menteri masing-masing?

Sekiranya Ahli Parlimen dapat bersidang untuk bermesyuarat, mengapa Parlimen tidak dapat mengadakan sidang Parlimen biasa sesuai dengan amalan parlimen seperti biasa dan Perintah Tetap Dewan Rakyat yang diamalkan sejak enam dekad lalu?

Notis parlimen itu sebenarnya melanggar Perintah Tetap Dewan Rakyat.

Justeru itu, sangat mengejutkan apabila membaca laporan Utusan Malaysia yang memetik Presiden Dewan Negara Rais Yatim yang mengatakan bahawa sebarang percubaan untuk menyingkirkan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin melalui usul tidak percaya pada persidangan Dewan Rakyat akan datang tidak akan dibenarkan.

Adakah Rais Yatim telah menjadi de facto Speaker Parlimen?

Ini sememangnya hari gelap bagi Parlimen.

Adakah Parlimen yang dilumpuhkan dan dilemahkan ini adalah jawapan kerajaan terhadap titah berulang kali yang dikeluarkan Yang di-Pertuan Agong dan Raja-Raja Melayu untuk Parlimen diadakan sebelum darurat berakhir pada 1 Ogos?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 16 Julai 2021)

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