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The national sigh of relief because the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases had fallen below the 3,000-mark after three straight days above 3,000 and 13 straight days above 2,000 lasted briefly for a day, when it sprung back to 3,418 cases.

Is Malaysia facing the fourth Covid wave before the third Covid wave – which is already the longest in the world lasting nine months as it started last September – could be fully brought under control by first reducing the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases down to triple-digit and then to double-digit figures?

What is most disturbing is that the highly-infectious Indian “double mutant” coronavirus is believed to be the chief cause of the vicious second wave of Covid in India, with grim scenes of people dying in hospital corridors, on roads and in their homes and where car parks have been turned into cremation grounds while desperate families scramble to find oxygen, medicines and hospital beds.

The apocalyptic scene of horror in India is underlined by the fact that since April 21, India had set new world record every day for the last two weeks for daily increase of new Covid-19 cases, which was previously held by the United States when it recorded a daily increase of 307,515 new cases on January 8, 2021. On
April 20, India registered the unbelievable daily increase of 402,110 cases and 3,522 deaths – which are themselves believed to be gross under-estimates of the true situation.

There cannot be greater contrast in the Covid-19 pandemic between India and China – where thousands are dying in India every day because of Covid-19 with the Covid-19 toll exceeding 20,000 in the past week while in Wuhan, China where the Covid-19 pandemic first started more than a year ago, thousands of people attended the first day of the Wuhan Strawberry Music Festival on Saturday and danced, bounced and screamed with delight as some of their favourite acts took the stage.

Malaysia’s tragedy is that we have no learnt the world-wide lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, that despite proposals a year ago for an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, the backdoor, illegitimate and kakistocratic government had blundered from one disaster to another, culminating in the biggest blunder of all – an emergency and suspension of Parliament.

Will the Cabinet on Wednesday decide that the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to end the emergency and to immediately convene Parliament to spearhead an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” national mobilisation in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia?

#kerajaangagal18 – Is there a fourth Covid wave in Malaysia, which returned to the dangerous level of daily increase of 3,418 new Covid cases while the highly-infectious Indian double-mutant coronavirus is detected in the country?

The national sigh of relief because the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases had fallen below the 3,000-mark after three straight days above 3,000 and 13 straight days above 2,000 lasted briefly for a day, when it sprung back to 3,418 cases.

Is Malaysia facing the fourth Covid wave before the third Covid wave – which is already the longest in the world lasting nine months as it started last September – could be fully brought under control by first reducing the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases down to triple-digit and then to double-digit figures?

What is most disturbing is that the highly-infectious Indian “double mutant” coronavirus is believed to be the chief cause of the vicious second wave of Covid in India, with grim scenes of people dying in hospital corridors, on roads and in their homes and where car parks have been turned into cremation grounds while desperate families scramble to find oxygen, medicines and hospital beds.

The apocalyptic scene of horror in India is underlined by the fact that since April 21, India had set new world record every day for the last two weeks for daily increase of new Covid-19 cases, which was previously held by the United States when it recorded a daily increase of 307,515 new cases on January 8, 2021. On
April 20, India registered the unbelievable daily increase of 402,110 cases and 3,522 deaths – which are themselves believed to be gross under-estimates of the true situation.

There cannot be greater contrast in the Covid-19 pandemic between India and China – where thousands are dying in India every day because of Covid-19 with the Covid-19 toll exceeding 20,000 in the past week while in Wuhan, China where the Covid-19 pandemic first started more than a year ago, thousands of people attended the first day of the Wuhan Strawberry Music Festival on Saturday and danced, bounced and screamed with delight as some of their favourite acts took the stage.

Malaysia’s tragedy is that we have no learnt the world-wide lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, that despite proposals a year ago for an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, the backdoor, illegitimate and kakistocratic government had blundered from one disaster to another, culminating in the biggest blunder of all – an emergency and suspension of Parliament.

Will the Cabinet on Wednesday decide that the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to end the emergency and to immediately convene Parliament to spearhead an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” national mobilisation in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia?

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

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#kerajaangagal18 — Adakah Malaysia sedang dilanda gelombang keempat wabak Covid, yang mana menyaksikan kenaikan harian kes baharu Covid-19 meningkat kepada 3,418 kes ditambah dengan kemunculan variasi baharu dari India di negara ini?

Negara menarik nafas lega selepas peningkatan harian kes baharu Covid-19 menurun di bawah paras 3,000 selepas tiga hari berturut-turut mencatatkan angka kes melebihi 3,000 dan 13 hari berturut-turut mencatatkan angka kes melebihi 2,000 yang mana bertahan cuma sehari, sebelum ia kembali meningkatkan kepada 3,418 kes.

Adakah Malaysia kini sedang berdepan dengan gelombang keempat Covid sebelum gelombang ketiga Covid — yang merupakan gelombang paling lama yang berlarutan selama sembilan bulan sejak September — dapat dikawal dengan mengurangkan kenaikan harian kes baharu Covid-19 kepada julat tiga angka dan seterusnya dua angka.

Apa yang paling membimbangkang adalah kemunculan varian mutan berganda yang dipercayai merupakan penyebab utama gelombang kedua Covid di India, yang menyaksikan begitu ramai rakyat negara itu mati bergelimpangan di koridor-koridor hospital, di jalan raya dan di rumah masing-masing serta pandangan menyayat hati di mana tempat letak kereta dijadikan kawasan pembakaran mayat, sementara terdapat juga ahli keluarga yang bergelut untuk mendapatkan bekalan oksigen, ubat-ubatan dan katil di hospital.

Situasi ngeri di India ini bermula sejak 21 April, selepas India mencipta rekod apabila mencatatkan peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia, yang mana sebelum ini disandang oleh Amerika Syarikat yang mencatatkan peningkatan harian kes sebanyak 307,515 pada 8 Januari 2021.

Pada 20 April, India merekodkan kenaikan harian kes Covoid yang luar biasa iaitu sebanyak 402,110 kes dan 3,522 kematian – yang dikatakan hanya angka anggaran kasar berbanding situasi sebenar di lapangan.

Perbezaan ketara dapat dilihat di antara negara India dan China – di mana beribu-ribu orang mati di India setiap hari kerana Covid-19 dengan jumlah korban Covid-19 melebihi 20,000 pada minggu lalu sementara di Wuhan, China di mana pandemik wabak itu tercetus lebih setahun yang lalu, ribuan orang menghadiri Wuhan Strawberry Music Festival pada Sabtu dan menari, meloncat serta menjerit keriangan sewaktu artis kegemaran mereka muncul di atas pentas persembahan.

Tragedi yang melanda Malaysia kini adalah kerana kita tidak mengambil iktibar daripada negara-negara lain yang turut dilanda pandemik yang serupa, meskipun terdapat gesaan sejak setahun yang lalu supaya kerajaan menerapkan pendekatan dan strategi “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam usaha membasmi pandemik Covid-19, kerajaan pintu belakang, tidak sah dan kakistokrasi telah melakukan kesilapan demi kesilapan dan kesilapan terbesar terletak pada pengisytiharan darurat dan pengantungan Parlimen.

Adakah Kabinet yang akan bermesyuarat pada Rabu ini akan menentukan sama ada Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wajar untuk menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk menamatkan darurat dan segera memanggil sidang Parlimen bagi mengerakkan pendekatan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam usaha memerangi pandemik Covid-19 di Malaysia?

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