The Government should not bulldoze through with a one-day sitting of Parliament as it not only violates the Constitution and the parliamentary standing orders, it breeds distrust and undermines confidence which are inimical to the “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” approach which are keys to Malaysia winning the invisible war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the Health Director-General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said yesterday, we are now on a different battlefield: having succeeded in flattening the curve, the Malaysian public must now learn to live with the coronavirus for the next year or two until an effective vaccine is developed and widely available – ensuring that there is no resurgence of Covid-19 while reviving the economy which had been devastated by the Covid-19 outbreak.

All Malaysians must be engaged in the invisible war against Covid-19 in the next 12-24 months by abiding by the standard operating procedures (SOP) for every sector, with social distancing the main plank of the strategy. Read the rest of this entry »