#kerajaangagal78 — Khairy should reveal the latest time-line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 under the National Immunisation Programme (NIP)

Two days ago, an article on the race by countries  to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 by vaccinating three quarters of their population against the disease gave the  following chart:

Nation

Doses given (million)

Population Coverage (%)

Vaccination Rate (doses per day)

Estimated time needed to achieve herd immunity from May

Israel

10.6

58.4

4,595

22 months

UK

61.4

46

5,801,439

2 months

USA

288

44.9

1,750,524

4 months

Singapore

3.41

29.9

38,534

4 months

Germany

45.4

27.3

679,567

4 months

France

34

26.2

520,616

4 months

China

527

18.8

15,037,429

3 months

Brazil

64

15.2

663,323

12 months

India

200

7.3

2,104,068

2.4 years

Malaysia

2.48

3.8

69,658

22 months

Thailand

3.02

2.2

97,617

2.8 years

Vietnam

1.03

0.5

3,655

>10 years

If Malaysia requires 22 months to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19, that will take us to March 2023.

This is both against the original NIP (National Immunisation Programme) timeline of February 2022 to reach herd immunity as well as the instruction of the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to accelerate and complete the national vaccine rollout in 2021 itself.

If the United States, Singapore, Germany and France can achieve herd immunity in four months, and China in three months, there is no reason why Malaysia should not accelerate its national vaccine rollout to achieve herd immunity by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2021, which will make Malaysia Day this year particularly significant.

As time is an imperative in the deadly war against the Covid-19 pandemic, Khairy should reveal the latest time-line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 whether in 2011 itself, 2012 or 2013.

If Malaysia will only achieve herd immunity in the second half of 2012 or in 2013, then those who received vaccination this year may no more be included among those with Covid-19 immunity, unless they get a booster or another vaccination.

Khairy should share with Malaysians these aspects of the NIP.

Those in authority must realise that the slow and tardy national vaccination rollout has become the nation’s Achilles’ heel in the war against the Covid-19 Pandemic and that although Covid-19 vaccines are not the silver bullet to end the pandemic, they are definitely a game-changer in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the government claims that it has adequate supplies of vaccines for the Malaysian population, there is no justification for the government to monopolise vaccine purchase and deny private sector requests to buy the vaccine on their own.

It is shocking that in the 17th month of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.

The latest example is the call by the Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah to medical professionals to volunteer their services to assist in battling the Covid-19 pandemic.

Noor Hisham said that all costs during the volunteering period would be borne by the individual themselves as the ministry would not be providing any transportation, lodging, food or allowances but Khairy had said in April that the government’s RM5 billion allocation for the national immunisation programme comprise honoraria for health volunteers.

In any event, why is the Muhyiddin government being so niggardly in approving legitimate expenses for the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

I call on the Prime Minister to ensure that the Health Ministry has adequate financial resources in the war against Covid-19 pandemic — another reason why the suspension of Parliament is crippling an all-out effort in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic!

Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, May 30, 2021

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#kerajaangagal79 — Convene Parliament to evoke the Dunkirk Spirit among Malaysians to unite and prevail over the Covid-19 crisis

The lament of the Health Director-General Noor Hisham Abdulalh that there is heavy traffic out of Klang Valley before the total lockdown on Tuesday despite the inter-district travel ban and the fear that the health system is facing paralysis is part of a larger problem — the inability of the Muhyiddin government to restore public trust and confidence and the failure to have a “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the 17-month war against Covid-19 pandemic.

We have not been able to evoke the “Dunkirk spirit”, the nation’s ability to come together with courage and resourcefulness to get through a crisis, because the government has become a kakistocracy and the government leaders do not inspire the people with trust and confidence.

This is why Parliament must be convened immediately, not only because the suspension of Parliament was an important reason for the failure so far to tame the Covid-19 pandemic, but because the convening of Parliament is a key initiative to restore public trust and confidence as well as to spearhead the “whole-of-society” strategy and approach so vital if we are to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Furthermore, the convening of Parliament is an occasion for evoking the Dunkirk spirit among Malaysians to unite and prevail over the Covid-19 crisis.

Malaysia broke two records yesterday — a daily increase of 9,020 new Covid-19 cases and a daily increase of 98 Covid-19 deaths, bringing the cumulative totals to 558,534 cases and 2,650 deaths.

We are now ranked No. 8 among nations with the most daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in contrast to the ranking of No. 10 the previous day.

On the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases, the United States have fallen from first ranking to No. 5th position, with a phenomenal drop of 96% yesterday from its peak of daily increase of 304,248 new Covid-19 cases on January 8, 2021. Its daily increase of 12,661 new Covid-19 cases yesterday was the lowest for more than a year — going back to March last year.

India, still No. 1 in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases, has reduced the number from the peak of 414,433 cases on May 6 by a huge 59% to 171,726 cases on May 28, 2021 — a period of some three weeks.

But the fatalities in India are still very high — over 3,000 deaths daily for over a month which included eleven days of over 4,000 fatalities, reaching a peak of 4,525 deaths on May 18.

The United States is looking for an end of the pandemic, but Malaysians expect even worse records in the coming days including five-digit numbers in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases.

What has gone wrong? Why is Malaysia doing so badly, that for the 18th consecutive day, we have a higher daily increase of new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia?

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

We are ranked No. 40 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, although we were ranked No. 85 six months ago on November 18, 2020.

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

I agree with Dr Sanjay Rampal, an epidemiologist and public health expert at Universiti Malaya, who cautioned against the use of data showing that Malaysia has overtaken India in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases per million people in order to judge the country’s healthcare system, as other factors need to be taken into consideration as well such as the low fatality rate in Malaysia as compared to India.

India, however, should be a cautionary tale not only for Indonesians but also for Malaysians as a country whose public health system collapsed during the Covid-19 pandemic and Malaysia does not want to go the way of India in this regard.

Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 30th May 2021

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#kerajaangagal80 — Call on all Malaysians to unite as one people to be disciplined, to avoid the 3Cs and  practise the 3Ws, so that the MCO 3.0 is the last MCO in Malaysia in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and prove that we can learn from the United States and India to become a  better performing nation after being a failure in Covid-19 pandemic

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I could not believe my eyes when I checked the world-o-meter table for the Covid-19 cases for each country yesterday.

The United States, which was the world’s worst nation in the Covid-19 pandemic for over a year as to have a cumulative total of over 34 million cases and over 600,000 fatalities, was recording a daily increase of over 100,000 new Covid-19 cases for three months and a daily fatality of over 2,000 deaths also for three long months.

It reached its daily peak of new Covid-19 cases on January 8, 2021 when it registered 304,248 cases and its daily peak of fatalities on 12th January 2021 when it registered 4,482 deaths.

Yesterday, the United States registered a daily increase of 7,750 cases — a drop of 97.5% from its peak of 304,248 cases on January 8, and a daily increase of 124 new

Covid-19 deaths — a drop of 97.3% from its peak of 4,482 deaths on 12th January 2021!

Even India, which took over United States’ place as the worst performing state in the Covid-19 pandemic in the last two months, is turning the corner as far as daily increase of new Covid-19 cases is concerned, although it daily Covid-19 fatalities are still high exceeding 3,000 deaths since April 27.

Yesterday, India reported a daily increase of 153,485 cases — a 63% drop from its peak of 414,433 new daily cases 24 days ago on May 6. India registered 3,129 Covid-19 deaths yesterday.

The United States is now the eighth country with the highest daily increase of new Covid-19 cases, while Malaysia is ranked No. 11.

Tomorrow, the full-lockdown of MCO 3.0 goes into force, and there is gloom and doom in Malaysia;

I call on all Malaysians to unite as one people to be disciplined, to avoid the 3Cs and practise the 3Ws — avoid Crowded places, Close-contact settings and Confined and enclosed spaces; while Wear a mask, Wash hands and heed the Warning to avoid close contact, practise proper cough etiquette, frequent disinfection and seek medical help if symptomatic — so that the MCO 3.0 is the last MCO in Malaysia in the war against Covid-19 pandemic and prove that we can learn from the United States and India to become a better performing nation after being a failure in Covid-19 pandemic.

However, I agree with former Cabinet Minister Rafidah Aziz and the president of the Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Associations (FPMPAM), Dr. Steven Chow that the acceleration of the ramping-up of the national vaccination rollout must be one the priorities, and the Minister co-ordinating vaccines, Khairy Jamaluddin, must get rid of his fixation with “mega” Covid-19 vaccination centres as the challenge is to get the vaccine to people especially in remote areas and not to get the people to the vaccine!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on Kuala Lumpur on Monday, May 31, 2021)

#kerajaangagal80 — Seruan kepada semua rakyat Malaysia untuk bersatu padu dan berdisiplin, mengelakkan 3C dan mengamalkan 3W, supaya PKP 3.0 akan menjadi PKP terakhir di Malaysia dan membuktikan bahawa kita mampu mengambil teladan daripada Amerika Syarikat dan India untuk menjadi sebuah negara dengan prestasi yang lebih baik selepas melalui kegagalan membendung pandemik Covid-19

Sukar untuk saya percaya selepas melihat jadual world-o-meter kes Covid-19 untuk setiap negara semalam.

Amerika Syarikat, yang sebelum ini merupakan negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengawal wabak Covid-19 sejak setahun lepas, selepas merekodkan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 melebihi 34 juta dengan lebih 600,000 kematian, merekodkan kenaikan kes harian baharu Covid-19 melebihi 100,000 kes selama tiga bulan dan kematian harian melebihi 2,000 selama tiga bulan.

Amerika Syarikat mencapai puncak peningkatan harian kes baharu Covid-19 pada 8 Januari 2021 dengan 304,248 kes dan kemuncak kenaikan harian angka korban akibat wabak itu berlaku pada 12 Januari 2021 dengan 4,482 kematian.

Semalam, Amerika Syarikat merekodkan kenaikan harian sebanyak 7,750 kes — menurun sebanyak 97.5% dari puncak 304,248 kes pada 8 Januari, sementara 124 kematian baharu dicatatkan — menurun sebanyak 97.3% dari puncak 4,482 kematian pada 12 Januari 2021!

Malah India, yang mengatasi Amerika Syarikat sebagai negara terburuk dalam menangani pandemik Covid-19 dalam tempoh dua bulan lalu, menunjukkan prestasi yang semakin baik selepas merekodkan kenaikan kes baharu Covid-19 sebanyak 153,485 kes, meskipun kenaikan harian angka korban akibat Covid-19 masih tinggi mencecah paras 3,000 orang sejak 27 April.

Semalam, India melaporkan kenaikan kes harian sebanyak 153,485 kes — menurun 63% dari puncak kenaikan kes harian sebanyak 414,433 pada 24 hari lalu, 6 Mei. India merekodkan 3,128 kematian akibat Covid-19 semalam.

Amerika Syarikat kini merupakan negara kelapan dengan kenaikan harian kes baharu Covid-19 tertinggi, sementara Malaysia berada di kedudukan ke-11.

Esok, “full lockdown” PKP 3.0 akan mula dikuatkuasakan, dan suasana suram dan malapetaka semakin mencengkam di negara ini;

Saya menggesa semua rakyat Malaysia untuk bersatu padu dan berdisiplin, mengelakkan 3C dan mengamalkan 3W. Elakkan 3C, iaitu jauhi kawasan yang sesak (crowded place), elakkan kawasan yang tertutup (confined space) dan elak sembang atau bertutur dengan jarak yang dekat (close conversation) serta mengamalkan 3W merangkumi kerap mencuci tangan dengan air dan sabun (wash), memakai pelitup separuh muka di tempat awam atau jika bergejala (wear), dan amaran dari KKM yang lebih berkonsep peringatan (warn) — supaya PKP 3.0 akan menjadi PKP terakhir di Malaysia dan membuktikan bahawa kita mampu mengambil teladan daripada Amerika Syarikat dan India untuk menjadi sebuah negara yang mempunyai prestasi yang lebih baik selepas melalui kegagalan membendung pandemik Covid-19

Bagaimanapun saya bersetuju dengan mantan Menteri Rafidah Aziz dan Presiden Persatuan Perubatan Persatuan Perubatan Malaysia (FPMPAM) Dr Steven Chow Kim Weng bahawa kerajaan perlu memberikan keutamaan untuk mempercepatkan program imunisasi kebangsaan, dan Menteri Penyelaras Program Imunisasi COVID-19 Kebangsaan (PICK) Khairy Jamaluddin perlu melupakan rancangannya untuk mewujudkan beberapa pusat pemberian vaksin (PPV) mega kerana ia akan menyusahkan orang ramai terutama mereka yang tinggal di kawasan luar bandar untuk mendapatkan vaksin.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin 31 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal81 — Muhyiddin’s live telecast is distinguished more for what it omitted than what it said

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Finally, the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has appeared in a live telecast on the eve of the “total lockdown” MCO 3.0 today.

But his live telecast is distinguished more for what it omitted than what it said.

Muhyiddin ignored many elephants stomping in the room — 17 months after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Firstly, why the emergency that was declared on January 12, 2021 had been such a colossal failure to bring the third Covid-19 wave under control?

Instead, some five months later, the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia is not only in a worse stage, but the country has become an international poster boy as a nation which had failed in the pandemic — no more the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain or even India!

We are now ranked No. 39 among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, with 572,357 Covid-19 cases and 2,796 Covid-19 fatalities.

In daily confirmed cases per million yesterday on Our World in Data (30.5.2021), we scored 235.58, higher than India (134.07), France (133.88), Canada (75.26), United States (60.82), Philippines (57.12), Italy (56.28), Thailand (54.98). Germany (51.24), UK (45.34), Japan (28.77), Taiwan (23.02), Indonesia (21.32), South Korea (10.79), Singapore (4.96), Vietnam (2.69), Hong Kong (0.10) and China (0.01).

For the 20th consecutive day, we have beaten Indonesia in daily increase of new

Covid-19 cases.

Even more shocking, for the first time, we have beaten United States in daily new Covid-19 cases, with United States’ daily increase of new Covid-19 cases yesterday only some 75% of Malaysia’s daily increase of 6,824 new Covid-19 cases!

Malaysia and India are the two worst performing countries in the May 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking — Malaysia falling 15 spots to No. 35 and India falling 20 spots to No. 50 out of 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion.

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

What has gone wrong? Why is Malaysia doing so badly, from all measures that are used, that we have become the international poster boy as a nation which is a failure in the Covid-19 pandemic?

Muhyiddin provided no answers. He omitted mention of this embarrassing subject and the reasons for these colossal failures in the Covid-19 pandemic in his live telecast last night.

There are five aspects of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic which the Muhyiddin government had failed badly, viz:

· Restore public trust and confidence in the government handling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic;

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

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

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

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

With the announcement of a RM40 billion economic package to help the poor and vulnerable groups, the Muhyiddin government is fumbling to tackle the last three items in its five failures in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

But Muhyiddin had left the first two failures in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic unaddressed in his live telecast last night – namely the need to restore public trust and confidence in the government handling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and the imperative need to spearhead a national mobilisation of Malaysians through a genuine “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The spectacle of a government fumbling and bumbling in its imposition of MCO 3.0 “total lockdown” after 17 months of Covid-19 pandemic, like the last-minute decision that any business which wanted to operate during the 14-day “total lockdown” must obtain permission from the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti), is not one to inspire public trust and confidence.

When is Muhyiddin going to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament which is essential if the first two failures in the war against the Covid19 pandemic are to be addressed.

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

#kerajaangagal81 – Banyak perkara yang tertinggal dan tidak diperkatakan dalam siaran langsung Muhyiddin semalam

Akhirnya, Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin muncul secara langsung di kaca televisyen menjelang pelaksanaan sekatan pergerakan penuh yang mula dikuatkuasakan hari ini.

Namun, banyak perkara yang tertinggal dan tidak diperkatakan dalam siaran langsung tersebut.

Muhyiddin mengabaikan begitu banyak masalah yang muncul dalam tempoh 17 bulan pandemik Covid-19 melanda negara kita.

Pertama, mengapa darurat yang diisytiharkan pada 12 Januari 2021 telah gagal untuk membendung penularan pandemik Covid-19 di negara ini?

Selepas lima bulan pengisytiharan darurat, situasi pandemik Covid-19 di Malaysia bukan sahaja semakin meruncing, malah negara kita telah menjadi contoh negara yang gagal membendung penularan pandemik Covid-19.

Kita berada di kedudukan ke-39 antara negara di dunia dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 tertinggi, dengan 572,358 kes Covid-19 dan 2,796 kematian.

Dalam kes Covid-19 per sejuta penduduk seperti yang dicatat dalam Our World in Data (30.5.2021), negara kita menerima markah 235.58, lebih tinggi berbanding India (134.07), Perancis (133.88), Kanada (75.26), Amerika Syarikat (60.82), Filipina (57.12), Itali (56.28), Thailand (54.98). Jerman (51.24), UK (45.34), Jepun (28.77), Taiwan (23.02), Indonesia (21.32), Korea Selatan (10.79), Singapura (4.96), Vietnam (2.69), Hong Kong (0.10) dan China (0.01).

Untuk 20 hari berturut-turut, kita telah menewaskan Indonesia dalam peningkatan kes baharu Covid-19.

Lebih mengejutkan, untuk julung-julung kalinya, kita telah menewaskan Amerika Syarikat dalam peningkatan kes baharu Covid-19, dengan Amerika Syarikat mencatatkan hanya kira-kira 75% daripada 6,824 kes baharu Covid-19 yang direkodkan di Malaysia semalam.

Malaysia dan India adalah dua negara yang menunjukkan prestasi terburuk dalam bulan Mei 2021 menurut Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking – Malaysia turun 15 anak tangga ke tangga ke-35 dan India turut 20 anak tangga ke tangga ke-50 daripada 53 negara dengan nilai ekonomi melebihi paras AS$200 bilion.

Beberapa hari lalu, Malaysia dipetik dalam media antarabangsa sebagai salah sebuah negara daripada 19 negara antaranya Argentina, Colombia, Iran, Nepal, Filipina, Pakistan, Costa Rica dan Afrika Selatan yang dijangka akan mencapai titik krisis pandemik yang serupa seperti di India.

Muhyiddin tidak memberikan sebarang jawapan. Beliau tidak menyentuh langsung perkara yang memalukan ini dan sebab mengapa kegagalan ini terjadi dalam siaran langsungnya semalam.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dengan pengumuman pakej ekonomi berjumlah RM40 bilion bagi membantu kumpulan rentan dan miskin, kerajaan Muhyiddin masih lagi dilihat terkial-kial untuk menangani tiga perkara terakhir dalam lima kegagalannya dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19.

Namun Muhyiddin membiarkan dua kegagalan pertama dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19 tidak ditangani dalam siaran langsungnya malam tadi – iaitu mengembalikan semula keyakinan dan kepercayaan rakyat dalam rancangan melawan Covid-19 dan keperluan untuk menggerakkan mobilisasi nasional semua rakyat Malaysia untuk memastikan terdapat pendekatan dan strategi melibatkan “keseluruhan masyarakat”.

Tindakan terkial-kial kerajaan dalam melaksanakan sekatan pergerakan penuh selepas 17 bulan penularan pandemik Covid-19 di negara kita dan keputusan saat akhir yang meletakkan syarat bahawa perniagaan yang mahu beroperasi dalam tempoh 14 hari sekatan pergerakan penuh perlu mendapatkan kebenaran daripada Kementerian Industri dan Perdagangan Antarabangsa (MITI), bukanlah suatu tindakan yang boleh mengembalikan kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat terhadap kerajaan.

Bilakah Muhyiddin akan menasihati Yang di-Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen supaya dua kegagalan pertama dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19 itu dapat ditangani dengan sewajarnya.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 1 Jun 2021)

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#kerajaangagal82 — Why Muhyiddin is not practising in Malaysia what he is preaching to the world?

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Why is the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, not practising in Malaysia what he is preaching to the world?

In his address during the closing session of the 74th World Health Assembly held virtually in Geneva, Switzerland, last night, Muhyiddin said the only hope for the world to end the Covid-19 pandemic is to ensure as many people are inoculated as rapidly as possible.

This is a truism that must be applied both locally and internationally.

Two days ago, I referred to an international media report last week which said that based on the present vaccination rate, the estimated time needed to achieve herd immunity with 75 per cent of the population vaccinated would be 22 months for Malaysia.

This would take us to March 2023 to achieve herd immunity again Covid 19, which was clearly against the original target of the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) which was February 2022, or the later instruction of the Prime Minister to complete the national vaccination rollout by this year.

I had argued that if the United States, Singapore, Germany and France could achieve herd immunity in another four months, China in another three months, and the United Kingdom in another two months, there is no reason why Malaysia should not accelerate its national vaccination rollout to achieve herd immunity by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2021, which will make Malaysia Day this year particularly significant.

As time is an imperative in the deadly war against the Covid-19 pandemic, I asked the Minister co-ordinating vaccines, Khairy Jamaluddin, to reveal the latest time-line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 whether in 2011 itself, 2012 or 2013.

But there was thunderous silence, as I suspect that Khairy is unable to talk about the latest time-line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19, as there is none.

This is an serious omission which must be immediately rectified, which the Prime Minister should look into and to draw up the government’s latest time line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity — whether in 2021, 2022 or 2023.

And make the government’s latest time-line for achieving herd immunity in Malaysia public.

Would Muhyiddin support my proposal for the national vaccination rollout to be completed by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16?

If Malaysia will only achieve herd immunity in the second half of 2022 or in 2023, then those who received vaccination this year may no more be included among those with Covid-19 immunity, unless they get a booster or another vaccination.

Let Muhyiddin share with Malaysians these aspects of the NIP.

Muhyiddin should realise that the slow and tardy national vaccination rollout has become the nation’s Achilles’ heel in the war against the Covid-19 Pandemic and that although Covid-19 vaccines are not the silver bullet to end the pandemic, they are definitely a game-changer in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the government claims that it has adequate supplies of vaccines for the Malaysian population, there can be no justification for the government to monopolise vaccine purchase and continue to deny the private sector requests to buy the vaccine on their own.

Let me remind Muhyiddin what he told the World Health Assemby two nights ago – that the world cannot win this war against the virus unless everyone has equal and rapid access to vaccines.

It has taken four months for Muhyiddin’s target of achieving a vaccination rate of 75,000 doses of vaccine a day.

Khairy is now claiming that he expects to reach a target of 150,00 doses of vaccine a day in June itself, causing the DAP MP for Bakri, Yeo Bee Yin, to ask whether this would be at the beginning, the middle or the end of June and whether it is the maximum or average daily vaccination rate.

There is an urgent need for less rigid and more flexible approach in NIP and Khairy should act on the complaint of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) President, Dr. M. Subramaniam that there had been no engagement between him and private general practitioners (GPs) on their involvement in the immunisation programme’s Phase and 3, although the MMA officially wrote to the Minister on March 2, 2021. But the MMA received no reply.

I do not blame the MMA president for his angry response as to why there were only 2,500 GPs registered with NIP.

Subramaniam said: “The minister should have come down from his high horse to meet with us months ago when we wrote to him.

“Perhaps that would have encouraged more GPs to get on board. What a difference it would have made if he showed some interest.”

Over to Khairy!

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

#kerajaangagal82 — Mengapakah Muhyiddin tidak mengamalkan apa yang dicanangnya di seluruh dunia?

Mengapakah Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin tidak mengamalkan apa yang dicanangnya di seluruh dunia?

Dalam ucapan beliau semasa sesi penutupan Perhimpunan Kesihatan Sedunia ke-74 yang diadakan secara maya daripada Geneva, Switzerland semalam, Muhyiddin mengatakan satu-satunya harapan untuk wabak Covid-19 ditamatkan di seluruh dunia adalah dengan memastikan seramai mungkin orang diberikan vaksin secepat mungkin.

Perkara ini sangat tepat, baik di peringkat tempatan mahupun antarabangsa.

Dua hari yang lepas, saya merujuk kepada laporan media antarabangsa pada minggu lepas yang mengatakan berdasarkan kadar vaksinasi setakat ini, Malaysia dijangkakan mencapai imuniti kelompok dengan 75 peratus penduduk menerima vaksin hanya selepas 22 bulan.

Perkara ini bermakna kita hanya akan mencapai imuniti kelompok menjelang bulan Mac 2023, yang sudah tentunya lari daripada sasaran asal Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan (PICK) yang menyasarkan bulan Februari 2022, atau arahan Perdana Menteri supaya program ini dilengkapkan tahun ini.

Saya telah katakan, sekiranya Amerika Syarikat, Singapura, Jerman, dan Perancis dapat mencapai imuniti kelompok dalam empat bulan yang akan datang, China dalam tiga bulan yang akan datang, dan United Kingdom dalam tempoh dua bulan lagi, tidak ada sebab untuk negara kita tidak mempercepatkan program vaksinasi ini untuk mencapai imuniti kelompok menjelang Hari Malaysia pada 16 September 2021 yang akan memberikan makna yang istimewa kepada sambutan Hari Malaysia tahun ini.

Memandangkan kita sedang berlumba dengan masa dalam perang melawan wabak membawa maut ini, saya telah meminta Menteri Koordinasi Vaksin, Khairy Jamaluddin untuk mendedahkan garis masa terkini untuk negara kita mencapai imuniti kelompok, sama ada dalam tahun 2021, 2022, atau 2023.

Tetapi, persoalan saya ini disambut dengan kesunyian, dan saya mengesyaki yang Khairy tidak dapat memberikan garis masa ini kerana tidak ada garis masa sebegitu.

Ini adalah kelompongan yang amat serius yang perlu diperbaiki segera dan Perdana Menteri sendiri perlu melihat ke dalam perkara ini dan kerajaan perlu merangka garis masa terkini untuk negara kita mencapai imuniti kelompok — sama ada menjelang 2021, 2022, atau 2023.

Dan garis masa ini perlulah dibentangkan kepada rakyat umum.

Adakah Muhyiddin menyokong cadangan saya supaya kita menyelesaikan program vaksinasi ini menjelang Hari Malaysia pada 16 September?

Sekiranya Malaysia hanya akan mencapai imuniti kelompok menjelang pertengahan kedua 2022 atau 2023, mereka yang menerima vaksinasi tahun ini mungkin tidak lagi dilindungi menjelang waktu tersebut melainkan mereka mendapat dos tambahan atau vaksinasi lain.

Muhyiddin perlu berkongsi dengan kita semua mengenai aspek ini dalam PICK.

Muhyiddin perlu sedar yang pelaksanaan vaksinasi yang lambat akan menjadi titik lemah kita dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 ini dan walaupun vaksin ini bukanlah ubat mujarab untuk wabak ini, ia telah terbukti sebagai satu pengubah keadaan dalam peperangan ini.

Memandangkan kerajaan mendakwa yang mereka mempunyai bekalan yang mencukupi untuk semua rakyat Malaysia, tidak ada sebab untuk kerajaan terus memonopoli pembelian vaksin dan menafikan permintaan sektor swasta untuk membeli vaksin dengan sendiri.

Marilah saya ingatkan Muhyiddin kepada apa yang beliau katakan di Perhimpunan Kesihatan Sedunia dua malam yang lepas — yang seluruh dunia tidak boleh memenangi peperangan melawan virus ini melainkan semua orang mempunyai akses yang pantas dan saksama kepada vaksin ini.

Kita telah mengambil masa selama empat bulan untuk mencapai sasaran pemberian 75,000 dos sehari.

Khairy kini mendakwa yang beliau menjangkakan sasaran 150,000 dos sehari akan dicapai pada bulan Jun, yang kemudiannya membuatkan Ahli Parlimen DAP Bakri, Yeo Bee Yin, untuk menanyakan sama ada sasaran ini akan dicapai pada awal, pertengahan, atau penghujung bulan Jun, dan sama ada angka ini adalah angka maksima atau kadar purata vaksinasi.

Terdapat keperluan mendesak untuk pendekatan yang fleksibel dalam pelaksanaan PICK dan Khairy patut bertindak atas aduan daripada Presiden Kesatuan Perubatan Malaysia (MMA), Dr M Subramaniam yang mengatakan tidak ada sebarang libat urus di antara beliau dan para doktor swasta mengenai program vaksinasi Fasa 3, walaupun MMA telah menulis kepada Menteri pada 2 Mac 2021 tanpa menerima sebarang maklum balas.

Saya tidak menyalahkan Presiden MMA di atas kenyataan marah beliau mengenai mengapa hanya 2,500 pengamal perubatan swasta yang didaftarkan dengan PICK.

Subramaniam mengatakan: “Menteri sepatutnya turun daripada kuda tinggi beliau untuk berjumpa dengan kami berbulan yang lepas semasa kami menulis kepada beliau.

“Mungkin perkara itu akan menggalakkan lebih ramai pengamal perubatan untuk menyertai program ini. Jauh bezanya sekiranya beliau menunjukkan minat.”

Kepada Khairy untuk dijawab!

(Kenyataan media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 1 Jun 2021)

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In memory of Leonard Hsing Yin Shean, MP Tanjong Aru 1986-1990

It is sad to receive news that Leonard Hsing Yin Shean, 63,  breathed his last at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu  last night.

Hsing was Member of Parliament for  Tanjong Aru from 1986 to 1990, during a term when the DAP had four MPs from Sabah –  Sandakan, Gaya, Tanjong Aru and Tawau.

Hsing  became an MP at the age of 26 years – a long-standing practice of the DAP since its formation in 1966 to ensure that the youths of Malaysia fully participate in the national affairs of the country.

My association with Sabah went back to May 13, 1969. On that morning, I flew from Subang in Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu to help in the election campaign of the Sabah Independent  candidate William Lye as  Sabah and Sarawak polling were to be  held a fortnight after the peninsular election.

I was speaking at a mammoth public rally in Kota Kinabalu in the evening when I was informed that trouble had broken out in Kuala Lumpur although details were not clear.

The next morning, I was served with an eviction order from Sabah by  the Sabah Chief Minister, Tun Mustapha, who was abusing  his powers of immigration autonomy for my criticising  his dictatorial ways as head of Sabah government in my rally speech.

I missed the flight (at that time there was only one flight out of  Sabah a day) and in the process unwittingly saved my life, as a posse  of Bajau horsemen who were strong supporters to Tun Mustapha was very incensed by my rally speech against Tun Mustapha the previous evening  and wanted to “finish me off” at the  Kota Kinabalu airport.

I remember at a Kota Kinabalu ceramah at the recent Sabah state general election last September, I asked whether there was anyone from the crowd who had attended my May 13, 1969 rally in Kota Kinabalu and several hands went up.

On 8th September 1993, Hsing was with me together with other party comrades  when I climbed Low’s Peak at the summit of  Mount Kinabalu.

Hsing was the proposer for the nomination of the current DAP MP for Kota KInabalu, Chan Foong Hin and worked for the DAP cause to the very end.

As former DAP MP for Kampar, Ngoi Thiam Woh said: “I will always remember Hsing as a principled and humble man that put the party before his own self-interest”.

Rest in Peace, Leonard Hsing Yin Shean!

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

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#kerajaangagal83 — How is the NIP to shorten its 22-month programme to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 to seven or even four months?

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One of the our biggest challenges in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic is how to accelerate the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) and shorten its 22-month programme to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 to seven or even four months.

For the past few days, both the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the Minister co-ordinating the NIP, Khairy Jamaluddin, have been avoiding my question as to what is the latest time-line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 under the NIP.

I had referred to an international media report last week which said that based on the present vaccination rate, the estimated time needed to achieve herd immunity with 75 per cent of the population vaccinated would be 22 months for Malaysia.

This would take us to March 2023 to achieve herd immunity again Covid-19, which was clearly against the original target of the National Immunisation Programme (NIP), which was February 2022, or the later instruction of the Prime Minister to complete the national vaccination rollout by this year.

This is a classic example why the Muhyiddin government has failed to restore public trust and confidence in its disastrous handling of the Covid-19 pandemic so far, for it does not seem to have a clue about important questions about the Covid-19 pandemic such as its target on achieving herd immunity against Covuid-19 in Malaysia.

The MCO 3.0 of a total lockdown of Malaysia has entered into the second day, but what is the Muhyiddin government doing about addressing the yawning deficit of public trust and confidence in the government handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Malaysia not only beating Indonesia for the 21 consecutive day in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases (yesterday’s statistics: Malaysia 7,105 cases, Indonesia 4,824 cases) but Malaysia beating United States for the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases on Monday, 31st May, 2021.

On 31st May, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases were respectively Malaysia 6,824 cases and United States 5,235 cases.

As the peak of daily increase new Covid-19 cases in the United States was 304,951 cases on January 8, 2021, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in the United States on May 31, 2021 represented a phenomenal drop of 98.3% of cases from its peak.

The reverse, however, is taking place in Malaysia.

Our peak of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases was previously on January 30, 2021 when we recorded 5,728 new cases. But for the past six days consecutively, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases have surged past this peak on January 30, and the Health Director-General recently spoke of a possible daily increase of 13,000 cases some time this month.

Global daily increases of Covid-19 cases have dropped 40% from the peak of 903,343 cases on April 20 to 360,232 cases on May 31, but Malaysia is buckling the international trend and in search of a new peak.

Very soon, it will be routine for the United States to beat Malaysia in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases.

I had argued that if the United States, Singapore, Germany and France could achieve herd immunity in another four months, China in another three months, and the United Kingdom in another two months, there is no reason why Malaysia should not accelerate its national vaccination rollout to achieve herd immunity by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2021, which will make Malaysia Day this year particularly significant.

But neither Muhyiddin nor Khairy could reveal what is the latest time-line for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 — whether in 2021, 2022 or 2013.

This is a serious omission and I suspect that even Muhyiddin and Khairy do not know what is the target date for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity.

If Malaysia will only achieve herd immunity in the second half of 2022 or in 2023, then those who received vaccination this year may no more be included among those with Covid-19 immunity, unless they get a booster or another vaccination.

This is a serious omission which needs immediate attention by Muhyiddin and Khairy as they should realise that the slow and tardy national vaccination rollout has become the nation’s Achilles’ heel in the war against Covid-19 Pandemic. Although Covid-19 vaccines are not the silver bullet to end the pandemic, they are definitely a game-changer in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

The government now claims that it has adequate supplies of vaccines for the Malaysian population. In such a case, there can be no justification for the government to monopolise vaccine purchase and continue to deny the private sector requests to buy the Covid-19 vaccine on their own.

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

#kerajaangagal88 – Bagaimanakah pelaksanaan PICK boleh dipercepatkan daripada 22 bulan kepada tujuh atau empat bulan untuk mencapai imuniti kelompok?

Salah satu cabaran terbesar dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 adalah bagaimana untuk mempercepatkan Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan (PICK) dan memendekkan tempoh 22 bulan program berkenaan kepada tujuh atau empat bulan bagi mencapai imuniti kelompok.

Beberapa hari lalu, kedua-dua Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan Menteri Penyelaras Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan Khairy Jamaluddin, mengelak untuk menjawab persoalan yang dibangkitkan saya berhubung bilakah Malaysia akan mencapai imuniti kelompok.

Saya merujuk laporan antarabangsa minggu lalu meramalkan jangka masa yang diperlukan untuk Malaysia mencapai imuniti kelompok dengan 75% daripada populasi telah diberikan suntikan adalah selama 22 bulan berdasarkan kadar vaksinasi terkini.

Ini bermakna kita akan mencapai imuniti kelompok pada Mac 2023, yang mana tersasar jauh daripada sasaran asal Program Imunisasi Covid-19 Kebangsaan iaitu pada Februari 2022, atau sasaran yang ditetapkan oleh Perdana Menteri yang mengarahkan supaya program berkenaan diselesaikan menjelang hujung tahun ini.

Ini adalah contoh di mana kerajaan Muhyiddin telah gagal untuk mengembalikan kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat terhadap kerajaan dalam mengendalikan pandemik Covid-19 sehingga kini, kerana kerajaan sendiri tiada jawapan untuk soalan yang begitu penting – bilakah negara kita akan mencapai imuniti kelompok?

Pelaksanaan sekatan pergerakan penuh di Malaysia telah memasuki hari kedua, tetapi apa yang telah dilakukan oleh kerajaan Muhyiddin untuk mengatasi defisit kepercayaan dan keyakinan di kalangan masyarakat terhadap cara kerajaan menangani penularan wabak ini, selepas Malaysia bukan sahaja menewaskan Indonesia untuk 21 hari berturut dalam peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 (statistik semalam: Malaysia 7,105 kes, Indonesia 4,824 kes) tetapi Malaysia juga menewaskan Amerika Syarikat dalam peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 pada Isnin 31 Mei 2021.

Pada 31 Mei, peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 di Malaysia dan Amerika Syarikat masing-masing adalah sebanyak 6,824 kes dan 5,235 kes.

Puncak peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 di Amerika Syarikat adalah 304,951 kes pada 8 Januari 2021, peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 di Amerika Syarikat pada 31 Mei 2021 menurun dengan mendadak sebanyak 98.3% daripada puncaknya.

Berbeza pula di Malaysia, puncak peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 adalah 5,728 kes pada 30 Januari 2021. Namun untuk enam hari terakhir berturut-turut, peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 telah meningkat melebihi puncak pada 30 Januari, dan Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan baru-baru ini mengingatkan tentang peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 yang mungkin boleh mencecah 13,000 kes dalam bulan ini.

Peningkatan kes baharu Covid-19 di peringkat global telah menurun sebanyak 40% daripada puncak 903,343 kes yang direkodkan pada 20 April kepada 360,232 kes pada 31 Mei, namun Malaysia menongkah arus dengan menunjukkan trend peningkatan dan merekodkan puncak baharu.

Lambat laun, Malaysia akan menewaskan Amerika Syarikat dalam peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 akan menjadi perkara biasa buat kita semua.

Saya meramalkan Amerika Syarikat, Singapura, Jerman dan Perancis akan mencapai imuniti kelompok dalam tempoh empat bulan lagi, China pula dalam tempoh tiga bulan lagi sementara United Kingdom dalam tempoh dua bulan, tiada sebab mengapa Malaysia tidak boleh mempercepatkan program imunisasi kebangsaan bagi mencapai imuniti kelompok menjelang Hari Malaysia pada 16 September 2021.

Namun, Muhyiddin dan Khairy tidak mampu untuk mendedahkan bilakah Malaysia akan mencapai imuniti kelompok — sama ada 2021, 2022 atau 2023.

Ini adalah perkara yang amat penting dan saya syak Muhyiddin dan Khairy sendiri tidak tahu tentang tarikh sasaran Malaysia akan mencapai imuniti kelompok.

Jika Malaysia mencapai imuniti kelompok pada separuh kedua tahun 2022 atau 2023, maka mereka yang menerima vaksin pada tahun ini tidak akan termasuk dalam golongan yang dilengkapi imuniti Covid-19, kecuali mereka diberikan booster atau suntikan vaksin lagi.

Ini adalah perkara yang serius yang harus diberikan perhatian secepat mungkin oleh Muhyiddin dan Khairy kerana mereka harus sedar program imunisasi bergerak terlalu perlahan dan menjadi kelemahan terhadap usaha kita untuk memerangi pandemik Covid-19. Meskipun vaksin Covid-19 bukanlah penawar ajaib untuk mengakhiri pandemik, ia sememangnya mampu menjadi pengubah keadaan dalam medan peperangan melawan pandemik Covid-19.

Kerajaan kini mendakwa mereka mempunyai bekalan vaksin yang mencukupi untuk semua rakyat Malaysia. Jika begitu, tidak ada sebab untuk kerajaan memonopoli pembelian vaksin dan terus menafikan permintaan sektor swasta untuk membeli sendiri vaksin Covid-19.

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

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#kerajaangagal84 — Malaysia and UK set new records respectively in Covid-19 pandemic — record high of 126 daily death in Malaysia while zero daily death in UK

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Both Malaysia and the United Kingdom have set new records in the Covid-19 pandemic — a record high of 126 daily Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia yesterday while zero daily death in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, 1st of June — the first day of MCO 3.0 “total lockdown”.

For two-and-a-half months, the United Kingdom has kept to double-digit daily death rates — down from its daily death peak of 1,823 deaths on January 20, 2021. UK’s zero daily death on Tuesday because of Covid-19 in UK was its first time in 10 months.

But in Malaysia, we burst through the six-week streak of double-digit daily death figures to three-digit daily death figure yesterday.

Since emergency was declared on January 11, 2021, the monthly statistics for Covid-19 fatalities under the emergency were

January (from January 11): 209

February: 370

March: 142

April: 234

May: 1,290

June: (1st and 2nd) 197

Total 2,442

As the total Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia till June 2, 2021 amounted to 2,993 fatalities, this means that during the nearly five months of emergency, the number of Covid-19 fatalities is nearly four-and-a-half times the fatalities of the previous 12 months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

What can be more potent than this to demonstrate the colossal failure of the emergency to combat Covid-19 pandemic?

But there is the further reason that during the nearly five months of emergency, the number of Covid-19 cases have increased by over four times the previous 12 months of the Covid-19 pandemic – as the 138,224 cumulative total of Covid-19 cases on January 11 have increased to 587,165 cases on June 2, 2021.

It is obvious that the declaration of emergency, together with the suspension of Parliament, had crippled efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic by the government’s double failures – firstly to restore public trust and confidence because of SOP flip-flops and double standards in the government handling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and secondly, to spearhead a national mobilisation of Malaysians through a genuine “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

What type of an emergency is this?

It must be the only emergency in the world which has not improved a dire national situation but aggravated and worsened it – whether in terms of cumulative total Covid-19 cases or fatalities!

In fact, experts are warning of worse to come in the Covid-19 pandemic despite MCO 3.0 and a “total lockdown”.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council member Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzan warned yesterday that a recent study warned that the Covid-19 death toll in the country may reach 26,000 by September with the estimated number of fatalities at least nine times the current cumulative death toll, which stood at 2,993 yesterday.

She said the study, conducted by the Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington in the United States, also estimated that the daily death rate could go as high as 200 cases towards the end of August.

Adeeba, who is also the chairperson of the Malaysian Aids Foundation, stressed that the fight against Covid-19 was one that all Malaysians should be involved in and urged all Malaysians to really reflect, re-strategise and reset.

She said the leadership must also be responsible to restore the public’s trust because, in terms of health, trust is the currency of public health.

The question is whether the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, will place national interest above self-interest and is prepared to restore public trust and confidence by immediately convening Parliament to ensure the proper functioning of the important constitutional safeguard of parliamentary scrutiny and “check-and-balance” to ensure Executive competence, efficiency and good governance?

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

#kerajaangagal84 – Malaysia dan UK masing-masing mencipta rekod baharu – Malaysia merekodkan 126 angka korban akibat Covid-19 sementara tiada kematian direkodkan akibat wabak itu di UK

Malaysia dan United Kingdom mencipta rekod baharu — Malaysia merekodkan 126 kes kematian akibat Covid-19, sekaligus menjadikan ia angka kematian tertinggi akibat wabak itu setakat ini sementara tiada sebarang kematian direkodkan di UK pada hari Selasa, 1 Jun, hari pertama pelaksanaan sekatan pergerakan penuh di negara kita.

Selama dua bulan setengah, United Kingdom mengekalkan angka kes kematian akibat wabak itu pada paras dua digit — menurun dari kes kematian harian tertinggi pada 20 Januari 2021 dengan 1,823 kes. UK merekodkan angka sifar kes kematian akibat wabak itu buat pertama kali dalam tempoh 10 bulan pada Selasa lalu.

Namun di Malaysia, angka kes kematian akibat wabak itu kekal pada paras dua digit selama enam minggu berturut-turut dan meningkat kepada tiga digit semalam.

Sejak pengisytiharan darurat pada 11 Januari 2021, statistik bulanan angka kes kematian akibat Covid-19 adalah seperti berikut:

Januari (dari 11 Januari): 209

Februari: 370

Mac: 142

April: 234

Mei: 1,290

Jun (1 dan 2 Jun): 197

Jumlah: 2,442

Setakat 2 Jun 2021, jumlah kes kematian akibat Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 2,993 kes, ini bermakna jumlah kematian akibat wabak itu sepanjang tempoh hampir lima bulan pengisytiharan darurat dikuatkuasakan adalah kira-kira 4.5 kali ganda daripada jumlah kematian yang direkodkan sepanjang 12 bulan sebelumnya.

Bukankah ini gambaran yang jelas tentang kegagalan perisytiharan darurat yang kononnya dikuatkuasakan kerajaan untuk melawan pandemik Covid-19?

Malah, sepanjang hampir lima bulan pelaksanaan bulan darurat, jumlah kes Covid-19 yang direkodkan di negara ini meningkat lebih empat kali ganda berbanding jumlah kes yang direkodkan dalam tempoh 12 bulan sebelumnya — jumlah keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 adalah sebanyak 138,224 kes pada 11 Januari; meningkat kepada 587,165 kes pada 2 Jun 2021.

Sudah terang lagi bersuluh, perisytiharan darurat dan penggantungan Parlimen, telah melumpuhkan usaha untuk melawan wabak Covid-19 ekoran kegagalan berganda kerajaan — pertama; kegagalan untuk mengembalikan kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat ekoran pelaksanaan SOP yang caca-marba dan bersifat dwi-standard dan kedua; kegagalan untuk menggerakkan mobilisasi nasional semua rakyat Malaysia untuk memastikan terdapat pendekatan dan strategi melibatkan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam peperangan melawan pandemik Covid-19.

Darurat jenis apakah ini?

Mungkin inilah satu-satunya darurat seumpamanya di dunia yang dilihat gagal untuk merubah situasi meruncing dalam negara, malah mendatangkan lebih banyak bencana – sama ada dalam kes kematian atau kes baharu jangkitan wabak itu.

Malah, pakar telah memberi amaran bahawa situasi lebih buruk dijangka akan berlaku meskipun sekatan pergerakan penuh telah dilaksanakan.

Anggota Majlis Sains Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman memberi amaran semalam bahawa satu kajian yang diterbitkan baru-baru ini memberi amaran bahawa jumlah kematian berkaitan Covid-19 di negara ini berkemungkinan mencapai 26,000 kes menjelang September. Anggaran angka itu sekurang-kurangnya sembilan kali ganda daripada jumlah kumulatif kes kematian terkini iaitu 2,993 setakat semalam.

Beliau berkata kajian oleh Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME) University of Washington itu juga menganggarkan kadar kematian harian akan mencecah 200 kes menjelang akhir Ogos.

Dr Adeeba yang juga Pengerusi Yayasan AIDS Malaysia menegaskan bahawa memerangi Covid-19 adalah tindakan yang perlu dilibatkan semua rakyat Malaysia dan menggesa semua rakyat Malaysia untuk berfikir, membuat rancangan strategik dan atur semula.

Beliau berkata pucuk pimpinan juga perlu mengambil tanggungjawab untuk mengembalikan kepercayaan rakyat dalam erti kata kesihatan awam, kerana kepercayaan adalah mata wang kepada kesihatan awam.

Persoalannya kini, adakah Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin akan meletakkan kepentingan negara mengatasi kepentingan peribadi dan bersedia untuk mengembalikan kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat dengan segera memanggil sidang Parlimen bagi memastikan wujudnya prinsip “semak dan imbang” ke atas segala keputusan yang dibuat oleh pihak eksekutif?

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

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#kerajaangagal85 — Does the Parliament Speaker Azhar Harun still need to be convinced that the emergency is a colossal failure to combat the 17-month Covid-19 pandemic?

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Does the Parliament Speaker Azhar Harun still need to be convinced that the emergency declared on January 11, 2021 is a colossal failure to combat the 17-month Covid-19 pandemic?

Does he still need to be convinced that one reason for the emergency being such a colossal failure to combat the Covid-19 pandemic is because of the suspension of Parliament which removed the important constitutional safeguard of parliamentary scrutiny and “check-and-balance” to ensure Executive competence, efficiency and good governance?

If Azhar still thinks that the emergency declared on January 11, 2021 was the best thing that could have happened to combat the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, let him say so publicly loud and clear — for his might be a lone voice for I doubt that anyone in the bloated Cabinet, including the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin himself, would dare to say so publicly.

When the emergency was declared on January 11, 2021, there were 138,224 cases after 12 months of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the nearly five months of the emergency, the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia increased by more than four times to 587,165 cases.

Before the emergency, there were 511 Covid-19 deaths after 12 months of the pandemic. In the nearly five months of the emergency, total fatalities increased by nearly six times to 2,993 fatalities.

In view of such data, I dare anyone — whether the Parliament Speaker or anyone in the Muhyiddin Cabinet — to declare publicly that the emergency declared on January 11, 2021 was a huge success in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic!

If the Parliament Speaker agrees that the emergency declared on January 11, 2021 was a colossal failure in the war against Covid-19 pandemic, and that one reason was the suspension of Parliament which unconstitutionally removed the important safeguard of Parliamentary “check-and-balance” to ensure Executive competence, efficiency and good governance, I would expect the Speaker to give positive consideration to the thoughtful and well-argued view expounded by the DAP MP for Bruas and former Speaker of Perak State Assembly, Ngeh Koo Ham, that Parliament had been unconstitutionally suspended (and which was published by Malaysiakin).

I had waited for a day for the Speaker’s response but there was none.

I spoke to Ngeh last night and learnt that the Speaker had been in private exchange of views with Ngeh.

This is most unsatisfactory. Whether Parliament had been unconstitutionally suspended is not a private matter but a most important public and national issue.

In the circumstances, Azar Harun must explain his position on the arbitrary suspension of Parliament during the emergency, and in particular, why he is acting as a spokesman of the Executive to Members of Parliament, instead of representing Members of Parliament to safeguard Parliament’s power and privileges from encroachment and usurpation by the Executive.

It was William Shakespeare who said: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”.

Will Malaysia have a great Parliament Speaker?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 3rd June 2021)

#kerajaangagal85 — Adakah Speaker Parlimen Azhar Harun masih perlu diyakinkan yang darurat telah gagal untuk mengawal wabak Covid-19 yang telah berterusan selama 17 bulan?

Adakah Yang Di Pertua Dewan Rakyat, Azhar Azizan Harun, masih perlu diyakinkan yang darurat yang diumumkan pada 11 Januari 2021 ini adalah satu kegagalan besar dalam usaha mengawal wabak Covid-19 yang telah berterusan selama 17 bulan?

Adakah beliau masih perlu diyakinkan yang salah satu sebab darurat ini gagal adalah kerana sidang Parlimen digantung, yang telah membuang satu aspek penting perlembagaan untuk membolehkan Parlimen menyemak dan mengimbangi segala tindak-tanduk pihak Eksekutif, untuk memastikan terdapatkan tadbir urus yang kompeten, berkesan, dan baik?

Sekiranya Azhar masih merasakan yang darurat yang diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021 ini adalah langkah terbaik dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19, beliau patut menyatakan perkara ini dengan jelas — kerana suara beliau mungkin bersendirian dalam perkara ini, kerana saya merasakan tidak ada sesiapa pun dalam Kabinet gergasi kita, termasuklah Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin sendiri, yang berani mengatakan demikian.

Semasa darurat diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021, terdapat 138,224 kes terkumpul selepas 12 bulan berhadapan dengan wabak ini. Lima bulan kemudiannya, angka kes terkumpul ini telah meningkat lebih daripada empat kali ganda kepada 587,165 kes.

Sebelum darurat, kita mencatatkan 511 kematian akibat Covid-19, 12 bulan selepas bermulanya penularan wabak ini. Dalam tempoh hampir lima bulan selepas darurat, angka ini meningkat hampur enam kali ganda kepada 2,993 kematian.

Dengan data sebegini, saya cabar mana-mana orang — sama ada Speaker Parlimen, atau sesiapa pun dalam Kabinet Muhyiddin — untuk mengatakan secara terbuka, yang darurat yang diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021 ini adalah satu kejayaan dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19 dalam negara kita!

Sekiranya Speaker Parlimen setuju bahawa darurat yang diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari 2021 adalah satu kegagalan besar dalam memerangi Covid-19, dan salah satu sebab utamanya adalah penggantungan Parlimen yang telah merompak hak berperlembagaan Parlimen untuk menyemak imbang tindak-tanduk kerajaan untuk memastikan terdapat pentadbiran yang kompeten, berkesan, dan baik, saya menjangkakan Speaker Parlimen untuk mempertimbangkan dengan positif, pandangan Ahli Parlimen DAP Beruas yang juga merupakan mantan Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak, Ngeh Koo Ham, bahawa Parlimen ini telah digantung sidangnya secara tidak sah dari segi Perlembagaan (yang telah diterbitkan dalam Malaysiakini).

Saya telah menunggu jawapan balas daripada Speaker untuk sehari, tetapi tiada apa yang diberikan daripadanya.

Saya bercakap dengan Ngeh malam semalam, dan diberitahu bawah Speaker telah bertukar pendapat secara peribadi dengan Ngeh.

Perkara ini amat tidak memuaskan. Perkara sama ada Parlimen telah digantung secara tidak sah di sisi Perlembagaan ini bukanlah perkara peribadi tetapi satu isu berkepentingan awam dan negara.

Dalam keadaan ini, Azhar Harun perlu menjelaskan kedudukan beliau mengenai penggantungan sidang Parlimen semasa darurat ini, dan terutamanya tindakan beliau dalam menjadi jurucakap pihak Eksekutif kepada Ahli-ahli Parlimen sedangkan beliau sepatutnya mewakili kepentingan Ahli-ahli Parlimen untuk mempertahankan kuasa dan hak-hak Parlimen daripada dicabuli pihak Eksekutif.

William Shakespeare pernah berkata: “Ada orang dilahirkan hebat, ada orang berjaya menjadi hebat, dan ada pula orang yang terpaksa menanggung hebat”.

Adakah Malaysia akan mendapat seorang Speaker Parlimen yang hebat?

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

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#kerajaangagal86 — Malaysians reeling from the Covid-19 caseload and fatalities of the first three days of “total lockdown”

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Malaysians are reeling from the Covid-19 caseload and fatalities for the first three days of the “total lockdown”:

Date

Cases

Fatalities

1.6.2021

7,105

71

2.6.2021

7,703

126

3.6.2021

8,209

103

Total

23,017

300

It took Malaysia 10 months to reach a cumulative total of 22,957 Covid-19 cases and eleven months to reach cumulative total of 300 Covid-19 fatalities but such a new Covid-19 caseload and fatalities  were reached in the last three days alone!

For the last three consecutive days, we have beaten both Indonesia and Philippines in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases as illustrated as follows:

Date

Malaysia

Indonesia

Philippines

1.6.2021

7,105

4,824

5,169

2.6.2021

7,703

5,246

5,223

3.6.2021

8,209

5,353

7,217

This is the 23rd consecutive day that Malaysia has exceeded Indonesia in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases and the fourth consecutive day Malaysia had exceeded Philippines in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases.

So far, Indonesia and Philippines have a larger cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, with Indonesia ranked No. 18 among nations in the world with 1,831,773 Covid-19 cases and Philippines ranked No. 24 with 1,240,716 Covid-19 cases, but Malaysia is closing in.

Malaysia is ranked No.39, with a cumulative total of 587,165 Covid-19 cases and 2,993 Covid-19 deaths.

Indonesia and Philippines, with larger population than Malaysia, have also larger total Covid-19 fatalities.

Although Indonesia has a total of 50,908 Covid-19 deaths and has more daily Covid-19 fatalities than Malaysia, it has been able to keep daily Covid-19 fatalities below the 200 figure for the past two weeks.

In the case of Philippines, with total fatalities at 21,158 deaths, there were four days in last two weeks where its daily Covid-19 fatality was less than those in Malaysia.

If the projection by the Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington, is right that Covid-19 death toll in the country may reach 26,000 by September, estimating that the daily death rate could go as high as 200 cases towards the end of August, Malaysia will be beating both Indonesia and Philippines in both categories of daily increases of new Covid-19 cases and daily new Covid-19 fatalities in the coming months.

Malaysia will be doomed if Malaysia has more cumulative total of Covid-19 cases and fatalities than Indonesia or Philippines.

Malaysia, ranked No. 39 with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, beat 31 of the higher-ranked countries with the most daily increase of new Covid-19 cases yesterday.

According to Our World In Data, Malaysia also leads many countries in daily confirmed cases per million yesterday, as we scored 237.45, higher than India (111.07), France (120.21), Canada (71.50), United States (49.06), Philippines (60.93), Italy (50.50), Thailand (56.42). Germany (52.79), UK (51.41), Japan (24.62), Taiwan (19.78), Indonesia (21.18), South Korea (10.72), Singapore (4.49), Vietnam (2.62), Myanmar (1.33), Australia (0.41), New Zealand (0.33), Hong Kong (0.23) and China (0.01).

From yesterday’s data, we can see a global daily increase of 386,337 cases, which is a 57.2% drop from the global peak of daily increase of 903,345 new Covid-19 cases on April 29, 2021; 131,371 cases in India, which is a 68.3% drop from its daily increase peak of 414,433 new Covid-19 cases on May 6, 2021; 17,791 cases in United States, which is 94.2% drop from its daily increase peak of 304,998 cases on January 8, 2021; 5,274 cases in UK which is a 92.3% drop from its daily increase peak of 67,843 on January 8, 2021; 1,968 new cases in Italy, a 95.2% drop from it daily peak increase of 41,195 on November 13, 2020; and 8,161 new cases in France, which is 90.2% drop from its daily increase peak of 83,324 cases on November 7, 2020.

Why is Malaysia buckling the international trend of a sharp dip in Covid-19 cases and instead surging for a new peak in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases?

The “total lockdown” has only undermined further public trust and confidence in the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

There appeared to be a coup in the Perikatan Nasional Government when the Senior Defence Minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced that during the “total lockdown”, all work permission letters from the International Trade and Industry (MITI) would not be valid, and permission letters would instead by issued by the respective ministries.

There appeared to be a quick counter-coup when 24 hours later, this announcement was countermanded and the jurisdiction went back to MITI.

The impression that there had been a coup and a quick counter-coup in the backdoor government was reinforced by the cryptic Facebook posting by Ismail that he had closed the door to his office at the Defence Ministry with the caption: “I have closed the front door but… 😥” and social media accounts of confrontation between Ismail and MITI Minister, Azmin Ali over the issue of MITI approvals during the “total lockdown”.

Is Malaysia on auto-pilot in a kakistocracy?

Nobody appears to be in charge. Nobody is bothered about restoring public trust and confidence in the government mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic or the need to launch a “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

In such circumstances, is there a future for Malaysia?

Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 4th June 2021

#kerajaangagal86 — Rakyat Malaysia bingung dengan peningkatan berterusan kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan kematian akibat wabak itu meskipun sudah tiga hari sekatan pergerakan penuh dikuatkuasakan

Rakyat Malaysia bingung dengan peningkatan berterusan kes jangkitan dan kematian akibat wabak itu meskipun sudah tiga hari sekatan pergerakan penuh dikuatkuasakan:

Tarikh

Kes

Kematian

1.6.2021

7,105

71

2.6.2021

7,703

126

3.6.2021

8,209

103

Jumlah

23,017

300

Malaysia mengambil masa selama 10 bulan untuk mencapai jumlah kes terkumpul sebanyak 22,957 kes dan 11 bulan untuk mencapai jumlah kematian keseluruhan sebanyak 300 orang, tetapi jumlah kes jangkitan dan kematian yang dicatatkan dalam  tiga hari terakhir ini sahaja sudah menyamai kes yang dicatatkan dalam 10 bulan dan 11 bulan tersebut!

Untuk tiga hari berturut-turut, kita telah menewaskan Indonesia dan Filipina dalam peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19:

Tarikh

Malaysia

Indonesia

Filipina

1.6.2021

7,105

4,824

5,169

2.6.2021

7,703

5,246

5,223

3.6.2021

8,209

5,353

7,217

Ini merupakan hari ke-23 berturut Malaysia mengatasi Indonesia dalam peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 dan merupakan hari keempat berturut-turut Malaysia mengatasi Filipina dalam peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19.

Sehingga kini, Indonesia dan Filipina mempunyai jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 yang lebih tinggi berbanding Malaysia – Indonesia berada di kedudukan ke-18 dengan 1,831,773 kes sementara Filipina di kedudukan ke-24 dengan 1,240,716 kes. Pun begitu, Malaysia dilihat semakin menghampiri kedudukan kedua-dua negara tersebut.

Malaysia berada di kedudukan ke-39, dengan jumlah kes terkumpul positif Covid-19 sebanyak 587,165 kes sementara 2,993 kematian direkodkan akibat wabak itu.

Indonesia dan Filipina, yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk yang lebih ramai berbanding Malaysia, juga mempunyai jumlah kematian akibat Covid-19 yang lebih tinggi.

Meskipun Indonesia mempunyai jumlah kes kematian terkumpul sebanyak 50,908 dan merekodkan jumlah kes kematian harian yang lebih tinggi berbanding Malaysia, negara jiran tersebut masih mampu mengekalkan kes kematian harian di bawah paras 200 sepanjang dua minggu lalu.

Sementara Filipina, dengan 21,158 kematian akibat Covid-19, merekodkan kes kematian yang lebih rendah berbanding Malaysia dalam tempoh empat hari sepanjang dua minggu lalu.

Jika ramalan Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME) University Washington tepat, maka kematian akibat Covid-19 di negara ini akan mencecah 26,000 orang pada September. Badan itu juga meramalkan kadar kematian harian mungkin meningkat setinggi 200 sehari menjelang Ogos. Ini bermakna Malaysia akan menewaskan Indonesia dan Filipina dalam kedua-dua kategori iaitu peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 dan kes kematian harian akibat wabak itu dalam tempoh beberapa bulan lagi.

Amat malang sekiranya Malaysia mempunyai kes jangkitan dan kematian yang lebih tinggi berbanding Indonesia atau Filipina.

Malaysia berada di kedudukan ke-39 dengan kes terkumpul positif Covid-19 tertinggi, menewaskan 31 negara dengan kedudukan yang lebih tinggi dalam aspek peningkatan kes baharu harian Covid-19 tertinggi semalam.

Menurut Our World In Data, Malaysia mendahului banyak negara dalam kes per sejuta penduduk semalam. Kita mendapat markah 237.45, lebih tinggi berbanding India (111.07), Perancis (120.21), Kanada (71.50), Amerika Syarikat (49.06), Filipina (60.93), Itali (50.50), Thailand (56.42), Jerman (52.79), UK (51.41), Jepun (24.62), Taiwan (19.78), Indonesia (21.18), Korea Selatan (10.72), Singapura (4.49), Vietnam (2.62), Myanmar (1.33), Australia (0.41), New Zealand (0.33), Hong Kong (0.23) and China (0.01).

Berdasar data semalam, 386,337 kes baharu telah dicatatkan di peringkat global, yang mana menurun 57.2% daripada kes harian tertinggi yang pernah dicatatkan pada 29 April 2021 dengan 903,345 kes, 131,371 kes di India, menurun 68.3% dari puncak 414,433 kes pada 6 Mei 2021; 17,791 kes di Amerika Syarikat, yang mana menurun 94.2% dari puncak 304,998 kes pada 8 Januari 2021; 5,274 kes di UK yang mana menurun 92.3% dari puncak 67,843 pada 8 Januari 2021; 1,968 kes di Itali, menurun 95.2% dari puncak 41,195 kes pada 13 November 13 2020; dan 8,161 kes di Perancis, yang menurun 90.2% dari puncak 83,324 kes pada 7 November 2020.

Mengapa Malaysia mengalami trend peningkatan kes positif Covid-19 dan sebaliknya pula berlaku di peringkat global?

Pelaksanaan sekatan pergerakan penuh hanya melemahkan lagi kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat terhadap cara kerajaan mengendali penularan wabak itu di negara ini.

Berlaku seolah-olah rampasan kuasa dalam Kerajaan Perikatan Nasional selepas Menteri Pertahanan, Ismail Sabri Yaakob mengumumkan bahawa semua surat kebenaran bekerja yang dikeluarkan oleh Kementerian Industri dan Perdagangan Antarabangsa (MITI) adalah terbatal, dan surat kebenaran baharu hanya akan dikeluarkan oleh kementerian yang berkaitan.

Terdapat serangan balas 24 jam selepas itu, apabila kuasa mengeluarkan surat kebenaran bekerja diberikan semula kepada MITI.

Situasi ini memberi gambaran situasi tegang dalam kerajaan pintu belakang ini. Dakwaan ini diperkuatkan lagi dengan hantaran yang dibuat Ismail di Facebook yang berbunyi “Saya dah tutup pintu depan tapi……” dan pengguna media sosial berteka-teki sama ada hantaran tersebut merujuk kepada pertelingkahan antara Ismail dan Menteri MITI, Azmin Ali berhubung kelulusan yang dikeluarkan oleh kementerian terbabit dalam tempoh sekatan pergerakan penuh.

Adakah Malaysia sedang mengalami kakistokrasi?

Rakyat Malaysia terkapai-kapai tanpa panduan. Tiada seorang pun dari kalangan pemimpin kerajaan yang bersungguh-sungguh mahu mengembalikan kepercayaan dan keyakinan masyarakat yang berang dengan cara kerajaan menguruskan krisis kesihatan ini atau berusaha untuk menerapkan strategi dan pendekatan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam perang melawan pandemik Covid-19.

Dalam keadaan seperti itu, adakah masa depan untuk Malaysia.

Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 4 Jun 2021

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#kerajaangagal87 — Hamzah thought he is very clever and has come up with an idea where the Malaysian Parliament will not be able to meet at all

The Home Minister, Hamzah Zainuddin, thought he is very clever and has come up with an idea where the Malaysian Parliament will not be able to meet at all.

He said that Parliament will only sit after the country achieves herd immunity against the Covid-19 virus and said calls for the government to reconvene the Dewan Rakyat before the immunisation objective would only “spark more infection clusters”.

He said: “What is important for us now is that everybody gets vaccinated. If everybody has got their vaccines and we have herd immunity, then what will happen next is we can reopen Parliament, we can hold gatherings.

“However, when we are yet to reach there, why make such calls (to have Parliament sittings) that can spark more clusters, which can be damaging and create ill feelings?”

Hamzah’s comments came about when he was answering a question on the government’s plan to take action against anti-vaxxers, when he suddenly detoured and took a swipe at those calling for Parliament to resume.

It is clear that Hamzah regards Malaysians who call for the end of suspension of Parliament as greater enemies than anti-vaxxers.

Is this the view of the entire Muhyiddin government?

This presents a very sad and gloomy prospect for Malaysia for there does not seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel.

It is clear that the Muhyiddin government does not accept that the two greatest imperatives in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic are firstly, the need to restore public trust and confidence in the government handling of the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and secondly, the need to spearhead a national mobilisation of Malaysians through a genuine “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, so that there can be efficient mass Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support (FTTIS) strategy and an acceleration of the national vaccination rollout.

What is the use of Hamzah talking about reconvening Parliament when Malaysia reaches herd immunity when neither the Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, nor the Co-ordinating Minister for Vaccines, Khairy Jamaluddin, has got a clear-cut time-line for achieving herd immunity in Malaysia?

It is fortunate that Hamzah’s idea that Parliament should only meet where a country achieves herd immunity against Covid-19 had not infected the rest of the planet, for it would be the death knell for democracy in the world.

The United States Congress would not be able to meet and Donald Trump would probably continue to be United States President and instead of United States slashing its daily increase of new Covid-19 cases by 94.2% from its peak of 304,998 cases on January 8, 2021 to 17,821 cases on June 3, 2021, the United States would have seen a daily increase of new Covid-19 cases probably to a million figure.

United Kingdom, which has now a cumulative total of 4,499,878 Covid-19 cases, and which reached its peak of daily increase of 67,843 new Covid-19 cases on January 8, did not suspend its Parliament, but met for 66 days from January and May, 2021 and will next sit on June 7 as it is now in recess. Now, for the last two months, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in the United Kingdom have never exceeded 5,300 cases.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro would be very grateful if he had thought of Hamzah’s idea earlier, for he is now facing a parliamentary inquiry, approved by Brazil’s Supreme Court, for his mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed more than 460,000 people with an cumulative total of more than 16 million cases.

Even in India, the Indian Parliament is not suspended although it is undergoing a devastating period of Covid-19 pandemic, reaching a peak of daily increase of 414,433 new Covid-19 cases on May 6, 2021 and a peak daily fatality of 4,525 deaths on May, 18, 2021. India’s cumulative total of Covid-19 cases now stands at 28.4 million cases, ranking it as No. 2 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases – after United States’ cumulative total of over 34.1 million cases.

But most important of all, expert medical opinion are coming round to the view that herd immunity against Covid-19 may be impossible because of vaccine hesitancy, the emergence of new variants which are more deadly and more transmissible and the delayed arrival of vaccination for children.

Is Hamzah suggesting that if herd immunity against Covid-19 proves to be impossible, the Malaysian Parliament should remain suspended and should not meet all at?

Let Muhyiddin declare whether Hamzah’s new idea is now the stand of the Perikatan Nasional government.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 4th June 2021)

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#kerajaangagal88 — As by whatever measure, Malaysia is one of the worst performing nations in the Covid-19 pandemic, is this going to be the reason for extending the Emergency on August 1?

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Malaysia has today set another record in the worsening Covid19 pandemic!

We burst through the 600,000-mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases with 603,122 Covid-19 cases.

Yesterday, we broke through the 3,000-mark for cumulative total for Covid-19 fatalities. Today, the total of people who died of Covid-19 stands at 3,182 fatalities.

We are ranked No. 39 among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and ranked No.9 among countries with the most daily increase of Covid-19 cases.

With a score of 237.45 for “cases per million” on 4th June, we are ranked No. 14 in the world by the Our World in Data behind the following 13 countries:

Rank

Country

Cases per million

1.

Maldives

1,472.86

2.

Bahrain

1,443.19

3.

Uruguay

988.60

4.

Argentina

699.28

5.

Seychelles

691.46

6.

Colombia

474.07

7.

Suriname

405.22

8.

Costa Rica

388.60

9.

Paraguay

387.46

10.

Chile

376.48

11.

Trinidad & Tobago

355.33

12.

Brazil

310.04

13.

Mongolia

293.40

14.

Malaysia

239.01

According to Our World In Data on daily confirmed cases per million yesterday, Malaysia has a higher score than India (105.48), France (123.91), Canada (61.86), United States (45.44), Philippines (61.88), Italy (45.35), Thailand (53.35). Germany (47.23), UK (55.19), Japan (23.13), Taiwan (19.27), Indonesia (20.69), South Korea (11.01), Singapore (5.01), Vietnam (2.51), Myanmar (1.39), Australia (0.38), New Zealand (0.36), Hong Kong (0.25) and China (0.01).

From yesterday’s data, we can see a global daily increase of 414,886 cases, which is a 54.1% drop from the global peak of daily increase of 903,345 new Covid-19 cases on April 29, 2021; 121,476 cases in India, which is a 70.7% drop from its daily increase peak of 414,433 new Covid-19 cases on May 6, 2021; 16.673 cases in United States, which is 94.5% drop from its daily increase peak of 304,998 cases on January 8, 2021; 6,238 cases in UK which is a 90.8% drop from its daily increase peak of 67,843 on January 8, 2021; 2,557 new cases in Italy, a 93.8% drop from it daily peak increase of 41,195 on November 13, 2020; and 6,953 new cases in France, which is 91.7% drop from its daily increase peak of 83,324 cases on November 7, 2020 and 4,975 new cases in Spain which is a 85.5% drop from its peak increase of 34,232 on January 15, 2021.

The United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain were countries which had performed very poorly in the Covid-19 pandemic, but they have now turned a corner and their daily increase of new Covid-19 cases are now even less than that of Malaysia.

Malaysia has lost out to Indonesia (for 24th consecutive days) and Philippines (for five consecutive days) in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases.

Malaysia and India were the two worst performing countries in the May 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking – Malaysia falling 15 spots to No. 35 and India falling 20 spots to No. 50 out of 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion.

At the rate of surge of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia, our position in the Bloomberg

Covid Resilience Ranking in June 2021 is not optimistic.

By whatever measure, Malaysia is one of the worst performing nations in the world in the Covid-19 pandemic. This is precisely because of the declaration of emergency on January 11 and the suspension of Parliament and the State Assemblies.

As if the Covid-19 situation is not bad enough, government leaders are talking about daily increases of 13,000 cases and cumulative total of fatalities in the region of 23,000 deaths.

Is this going to be the very reason for the continuance of the state of emergency on August 1 and the continued suspension of Parliament and the various State Assemblies?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 5th June 2021)

#kerajaangagal88 — Memandangkan kita boleh dikira sebagai negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19, adakah perkara ini akan dijadikan alasan untuk memanjangkan lagi darurat pada 1 Ogos?

Malaysia hari ini telah memecahkan satu lagi rekod baharu dalam wabak Covid-19 yang keadaannya semakin buruk dalam negara kita.

Kita berjaya melepasi paras 600,000 kes terkumpul dengan 603,122 kes Covid-19.

Semalam, kita melepasi paras 3,000 kematian akibat Covid-19. Hari ini, jumlah korban terkumpul berada pada kadar 3,182 kematian.

Kita berada di tempat ke-39 di seluruh dunia dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul dan berada di tempat ke-9 dari segi jumlah peningkatan harian tertinggi.

Dengan 237.45 kes “per sejuta penduduk” pada 4 Jun, kita berada di tempat ke-14 di belakang 13 buah negara berikut:

Kedudukan

Negara

Kes per sejuta penduduk

1.

Maldives

1,472.86

2.

Bahrain

1,443.19

3.

Uruguay

988.60

4.

Argentina

699.28

5.

Seychelles

691.46

6.

Colombia

474.07

7.

Suriname

405.22

8.

Kosta Rika

388.60

9.

Paraguay

387.46

10.

Chile

376.48

11.

Trinidad & Tobago

355.33

12.

Brazil

310.04

13.

Mongolia

293.40

14.

Malaysia

239.01

Menurut laman web Our World In Data mengenai angka kes harian disahkan per sejuta penduduk semalam, Malaysia mencatatkan kedudukan yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan India (105.48), Perancis (123.91), Kanada (61.86), Amerika Syarikat (45.44), Filipina (61.88), Itali (45.35), Thailand (53.35). Jerman (47.23), UK (55.19), Jepun (23.13), Taiwan (19.27), Indonesia (20.69), Korea Selatan (11.01), Singapura (5.01), Vietnam (2.51), Myanmar (1.39), Australia (0.38) , New Zealand (0.36), Hong Kong (0.25) dan China (0.01).

Daripada data semalam, kita dapat melihat peningkatan global sebanyak 414,886 kes, yang merupakan penurunan sebanyak 54.1% daripada kemuncak peningkatan global dengan 903,345 kes pada 29 April 2021; 121,476 kes di India, yang merupakan penurunan sebanyak 70.7% dari kemuncak peningkatan kes hariannya iaitu 414,433 kes Covid-19 baru pada 6 Mei 2021; 16.673 kes di Amerika Syarikat, penurunan 94.5% dari kemuncak peningkatan kes hariannya sebanyak 304,998 kes pada 8 Januari 2021; 6,238 kes di UK yang merupakan penurunan 90.8% dari kemuncak peningkatan kes hariannya sebanyak 67,843 pada 8 Januari 2021; 2,557 kes baru di Itali, penurunan sebanyak 93.8% daripadanya kemuncak peningkatan harian sebanyak 41,195 pada 13 November 2020; dan 6,953 kes baru di Perancis, iaitu penurunan 91,7% dari kemuncak peningkatan kes hariannya sebanyak 83,324 kes pada 7 November 2020 dan 4,975 kes baru di Sepanyol yang merupakan penurunan 85.5% dari kemuncak angka ini 34,232 pada 15 Januari 2021.

United Kingdom, Perancis, Itali, dan Sepanyol adalah negara yang sebelum ini mencatatkan prestasi yang sangat buruk dalam mengendalikan wabak ini, tetapi kini mereka telah berubah dan menyaksikan keadaan yang lebih baik dengan kadar peningkatan kes harian yang lebih rendah berbanding dengan kadar dalam negara kita.

Malaysia telah kalah kepada Indonesia untuk 24 hari berturut dan Filipina untuk lima hari berturut-turut dari segi jumlah kes baharu Covid-19.

Malaysia dan India adalah antara dua negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam penerbitan Covid Resilience Ranking oleh Bloomberg untuk bulan Mei 2021 — Malaysia telah jatuh 15 anak tangga ke tempat ke-35 manakala India jatuh 20 anak tangga ke tempat ke-50 daripada 53 buah negara dengan ekonomi yang bernilai lebih daripada AS$200 bilion.

Pada kadar peningkatan kes Covid-19 semasa dalam negara, kedudukan kita dalam carta Bloomberg ini untuk bulan Jun 2021 tidak kelihatan baik.

Tidak kiralah apa pun kayu ukurnya, prestasi negara kita dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 adalah antara yang terburuk di seluruh dunia. Perkara ini adalah kerana perisytiharan darurat pada 11 Januari yang membawa bersamanya penggantungan sidang Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri.

Seakan-akan keadaan semasa Covid-19 ini tidak cukup buruk lagi, para pemimpin kerajaan kini sedang bercakap mengenai peningkatan harian sehingga 13,000 kes sehari dan kadar kematian terkumpul sehingga 23,000 kematian.

Adakah perkara ini akan menjadi sebab utama penyambungan perintah darurat dan penggantungan sidang Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri pada 1 Ogos?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Sabtu, 5 Jun 2021)

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#kerajaangagal89 — Re-strategise national vaccination rollout with common touches to bring vaccines to the people  in rural and remote areas while in urban areas, set up more vaccination centres and make them convenient and people-friendly

Every day is bad news on the Covid-19 pandemic front, whether the shocking data showing while the world and most countries are turning a corner in the pandemic, Malaysia is one exception surging for record daily increases of new Covid-19 cases and fatalities as well as disproportionate increase of cumulative total for Covid-19 cases and deaths or the kakistocracy of the Malaysian government where public trust and confidence in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic keeps dwindling way.

The national vaccination rollout has become the Achilles’ heel of the Malaysian war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Although the Prime Minister. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today that around two million people have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, placing Malaysia among countries with the highest vaccination rate in Southeast Asia, the data from Bloomberg vaccine tracker is not so uplifting.

According to Bloomberg Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker, more than 2.06 billion doses had been administered across 176 countries, and the latest rate was roughly 37 million doses administered a day.

In the United States, 299 million doses had been given so far and in the last week, an average of one million doses per day were administered.

According to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, Malaysia is administering 88,294 doses a day, far below Indonesia (administering 269,257 doses a day) and Philippines (156,771 doses a day).

Malaysia has 3.4% of its population fully vaccinated and 6.8% of its population given one dose of vaccination, as compared to Singapore (31% fully vaccinated, 40% given one dose), Indonesia (4.1% fully vaccinated, 6.5% given one dose) and Philippines (1.1% fully vaccinated, 3.7% given one dose).

We are far behind United States (41.4% fully vaccinated, 51.1% given one dose), United Kingdom (40.1% fully vaccinated, 59.8% given one dose) and Israel (56.8% fully vaccinated, 60.3% given one dose).

There must be urgent review to ensure that the national vaccination rollout does not become the Malaysia’s Achilles’ heel in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

The Special Committee on Covid-19 Vaccine must re-strategise and ensure that the campaign highlights the common touches to bring the vaccine to the people instead of bringing the people to the vaccine.

This is particularly important for rural and remotes areas, although in urban areas, emphasis should be made to increase the vaccination centres which should be people-friendly and convenient.

There should be a national campaign involving all MPs, State Assembly persons, community leaders, village heads, heads of religious groups, corporate leaders, the business community, professional associations and even social influencers to play a key role to persuade Malaysians to register for the vaccination.

It is however distressing and not calculated to narrow the yawning deficit of public trust and confidence in the government handling of the war against Covid-19 pandemic if Ministers continue to be in sixes and sevens, with the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.

A good example yesterday was the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Parliament) Takiyuddin Hassan talking about the government agreeing “in principle” to Parliament holding “hybrid” sessions, while the Home Minister, Hamzah Zainudin was declaring that Parliament will only sit after the country has achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 virus.

Hamzah seemed to be laying down the law and it is significant that the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, had not contradicted Hamzah.

Is Takiyuddin prepared to contradict Hamzah?

As Muhyddin and the Minister co-ordinating vaccines, Khairy Jamaluddin dare not commit themselves publicly when Malaysia will achieve herd immunity, is Hamzah prepared to do so?

I fully endorse the proposal by the Public Accounts Committee Chairman and DAP MP for Ipoh Timor, Wong Kah Woh to vaccinate all Parliament staffers to make Parliament the first sector to achieve herd immunity so that Parliament can be convened without any delay.

This is one area which Takiyuddin can accomplish, but whether Parliament should meet in “hybrid” session should be a matter to be decided by Parliament and not by Takiyuddin.

Why should Parliament meet in hybrid session when all MPs and parliamentary staff had been vaccinated?

The kakistocratic nature of the government-of-the-day could be seen by press conference by the Ketua Pengarah Bomba Mohammad Hamdan Wahid, beside the Minister for Housing and Local Government, Zuraida Kamaruddin, criticising Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman.

I fully agree with community activist, Dr. Mohamad Rafick Khan who commented on his blog that he was shocked at Mohammad Hamdan’s attack on Adeeba, as Adeeba had not belittled the Bomba services.

Dr. Rafick said:

“Is there a role for cleanliness sanitation? Beyond doubt, I say there is but it is not in the manner on how it is done by the Minister of Housing. One does not do sanitation in open space, roadsides where there is adequate natural sunlight to kill the virus. It is done in a confined space or inside a building. This can be achieved by residents themselves via gotong-royong using commercial cleaning detergent or any disinfectant like Lysol or Dettol.

“He is right when he says ‘Kita Perlu Berusah’ but use common sense, logic and science in carrying out your work. It reflects a poor management decision where unnecessary asset and men are deployed to do low impact activity for the sake of ‘Berusaha’. Do make an informed and intelligent decision in coming out with any ‘Usaha’.

“In war when generals make bad decisions, soldiers die. Poor usage of resources led to the loss of man and losing a war. Therefore the KP should not blame others when his men are overworked or died from COVID. He should have invited Dr Adeeba to review and make an assessment on the sanitization program and advice him on what needs to be done.”

Could the Prime Minister ensure that his Ministers and top officers be professional in their duties, especially in the long and protracted invisible war against the Covid-19 pandemic?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 5th June 2021)

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