Archive for October 29th, 2020
Sabah general election is Malaysia’s Covid-19 super-spreader event but Malaysians must show unity and discipline to prove wrong the modelling projection of academicians that there will be 15,000 active cases in Malaysia by Nov. 8
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It is bizarre following the United States Presidential election.
Malaysia is struggling to ensure that we avoid four-digit daily increase of Covid-19 infections, although we have failed twice on the 24th and 26th October when we recorded 1,228 and 1,240 Covid-19 new cases respectively.
The United States is not struggling to avoid a four-digit daily increase, but to avoid seven-digit daily increase, recording more than 84,000 new Covid-19 cases last Friday – which is about thrice of the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia after nine months of the Covid-19 pandemic, viz: 29,441 cases. Read the rest of this entry »
Call for a special humanitarian crisis package for Sabah now as some 29 people in Sabah may die of Covid-19 if we wait until the 2021 Budget is presented in Parliament next Friday on Nov. 6
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There is an urgent need for a special humanitarian crisis package for Sabah now as some 29 people in Sabah may die of Covid-19 if we wait until the 2021 Budget is presented in Parliament next Friday on November 6.
The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia has claimed 102 lives in Sabah in the first 28 days of October, averaging a fatality rate of 3.64 lives daily – and if we wait for another eight days until Nov. 6, we may see another 29.12 fatalities.
In contrast, eight lives were lost in the rest of Malaysia during the past four weeks. Read the rest of this entry »