Archive for August, 2021
Is Malaysia prepared for a Covid-19 Delta Variant surge?
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According to the recent testimony by the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group, Professor Sir Andrew :Pollard to the United Kingdom all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on coronavirus, reaching herd immunity is “not a possibility” with the current Delta variant.
The British media reported the evidence of Pollard to the UK parliamentary group on
Tuesday who said that the fact that vaccines did not stop the spread of Covid-19 meant reaching the threshold for overall immunity in the population was “mythical”. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Noor Hisham’s forecast three weeks ago that Malaysia will climb to 24,000 Covid-19 cases a day in mid-September come one month earlier in mid-August?
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Will the Health director-general, Noor Hisham Abdulah’s prediction three weeks ago that Malaysia may reach the peak of Covid-19 transmissions in mid-September with 24,000 cases a day come one month earlier in mid-August?
For the last six days, the daily new Covid-19 death have exceeded 200 cases, ranging from 201 cases on 10th August to 360 cases on 8th August. Read the rest of this entry »
Is there any explanation why we are heading towards over 6,000 Covid-19 deaths in the month of August – the National Day month – when in August last year there were only two Covid-19 deaths?
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Is there any explanation why Malaysia is heading towards over 6,000 Covid-19 deaths in the month of August – the National Day month – when in August last year there were only two Covid-19 deaths?
In the first eleven days of August, there had been 2,349 Covid-19 deaths when in the first month of the Emergency from January 11 – Feb. 10, 2021, there had only been 268 Covid-19 deaths!
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Police should not misuse their powers by trampling on the constitutional rights of Malaysians to freedom of speech and expression
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The Police should not misuse their powers by tramping on the constitutional rights of Malaysians to freedom of speech and expression.
The swift and draconian actions by the police against four persons over claims they insulted the Kedah Mentri Besar Mohammad Sanusi Md Nor have shocked and revolted Malaysians, in particular the way a 61-year-old senior citizen who had called Sanusi “stupid” for his remark about containers being used as a morgue had been arrested in Lenggeng in Negri Semibilan and dragged to Kedah for investigations. Read the rest of this entry »
Does Malaysia want to be the world’s top five countries in daily new Covid-19 cases and new Covid-19 deaths?
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Yesterday, we broke the 11,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths and today we will break the 1.3 million-mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.
At the present rate of Covid-19 deaths, breaking the thousand mark in five or six days, we will break the 15,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths by the 64th National Day on August 31, and going by the present rate of Covid-19 infections, we will reach the cumulative total of 1.5 million Covid-19 cases by August 21 or 22nd and by National Day on August 31, we may have broken the 1.7 million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.l Read the rest of this entry »
When can new daily Covid-19 cases be brought down to triple-digit numbers and daily Covid-19 deaths brought down to double-digit numbers?
When can new daily Covid-19 cases be brought down to triple-digit numbers and daily Covid-19 deaths brought down to double-digit numbers?
Is there anyone in the Muhyiddin government who can and dare to answer these questions?
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The single biggest issue of the Covid-19 pandemic is the high fatality rate with 360 new Covid-19 deaths yesterday but it was completely omitted by Muhyiddin in his live telecast
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The single biggest issue of the Covid-19 pandemic is the high fatality rate with 360 new Covid-19 deaths yesterday, but it was completely omitted by the Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in his live telecast yesterday.
When emergency was proclaimed on January 11, 2021 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 551 deaths from the first 12 months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Is Muhyiddin going to have a parallel Cabinet of Special Advisers with Ministerial status?
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Health, Muhyiddin Yassin on Sunday, 8 August 2021
The appointment of Bersatu deputy president Ahmad Faizal Azumu as special adviser to the Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin with the status of Minister raises the question whether Muhyiddin is going to have a parallel Cabinet of Special Advisers with Ministerial status.
This is because there are already two full Ministers and two deputy Ministers for the two portfolios of community relations and communications for which Faizal Azumu had been appointed as Special Adviser to the Prime Minister. Read the rest of this entry »
Height of irresponsibility for Muhyiddin not to convene Parliament in August when the country is heading towards 1.5 million Covid-19 cases and over 15,000 death on 64th National Day and some two million Covid-19 cases and 20,000 deaths on 58th Malaysia Day
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Saturday, 7 August 2021
There has been no let-up in the surge of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia as yesterday registered a new daily record of 20,899 Covid-19 cases and 160 new Covid-19 deaths.
Malaysia is facing a double crisis – a constitutional crisis which has reached a new peak with the resignation of two UMNO Ministers and the Covid-19 pandemic continuing its worst ravages. Read the rest of this entry »
A triple whammy in the Covid-19 pandemic yesterday after a sextuple whammy the day before
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Malaysia was hit with a triple whammy in the Covid-19 pandemic after a sextuple whammy the day before.
The sextuple whammy that hit Malaysia on Wednesday were: Read the rest of this entry »
Muhyiddin should resign after yesterday’s quadruple whammy – Malaysia’s worst day in 20-month Covid-19 pandemic with most cases, most deaths, most ICU admissions and most active caseloads
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Muhyiddin Yassin on Thursday, 5 August 2021
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The Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin should resign after yesterday’s quadruple whammy – Malaysia’s worst day in 20-month Covid-19 pandemic with most cases, most deaths, most intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and most active caseloads.
Yesterday, Malaysia logged a record-high of 19,819 daily new Covid-19 cases, 257 daily new Covid-19 deaths, 1,069 ICU admissions and 210,000 Covid-19 active cases. Read the rest of this entry »
Muhyiddin should not wait until September but should convene a Parliament special meeting latest by August 16 for the motion of confidence in him as Prime Minister
Posted by Kit in Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Muhyiddin Yassin should not wait until September but should convene a Parliament special meeting latest by August 16 for the motion of confidence in him as Prime Minister.
This August Parliament special meeting will also complete the truncated Parliament special meeting which was adjourned for two weeks on 29th July purportedly because of Covid-19 pandemic. Read the rest of this entry »
Parliament should meet latest by August 16 to annul the six Emergency Ordinances and Muhyiddin has to demonstrate he has the confidence of the majority of Parliament
Posted by Kit in Constitution, COVID-19, Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Wednesday, 4 August 2021
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When Malaysia first imposed the Movement Control Order (MCO) on 18th March 2020, Malaysia had 728 Covid-19 cases and two deaths.
Now, after numerous movement control orders and a six-month emergency, we have a cumulative total of 1,163,291 Covid-19 cases and 9,598 Covid-19 deaths – 1,600 times the number of Covid-19 cases and 4,800 times the number of Covid-19 deaths after 16 months . Read the rest of this entry »
Why was Parliament locked down for two weeks and why the truncated Parliament special meeting could not reconvene for Dewan Rakyat to be held on August 16 and Senate from August 17-19 to annul the six Emergency Ordinances
Posted by Kit in Emergency, Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Tuesday, 3 August 2021
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The four-paragraph statement today by the Prime Minister, Muhyddin Yassin, signifies two things:
Firstly, he is not going to resign or sacrifice any of his Ministers or officials and will fight any attempt from any quarter to end his backdoor, illegitimate and undemocratic government; and Read the rest of this entry »
Mystery on what basis a state is placed in a NRP phase is one reason why there is no public confidence in the National Recovery Plan
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Parliament on Tuesday, 3 August 2021
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Yesterday, the Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced that Sarawak, Perlis and Labuan have moved into Phase 3 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP).
This was despite Sarawak and Labuan not qualifying for Phase 3 based on the initial criteria which the government set in early July. Read the rest of this entry »
Parliament lockdown a great national disservice as Malaysia is heading towards half-a-million Covid-19 cases and 6,000 Covid-19 deaths in August resulting in Malaysia having a cumulative total exceeding 1.5 million Covid-19 cases and 15,000 Covid-19 deaths on the 64th National Day on August 31
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Parliament on Tuesday, 3 August 2021
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The Parliament lockdown since last Thursday is a great national disservice as Malaysia is heading towards half-a-million Covid-19 cases and 6,000 Covid-19 deaths in August resulting in Malaysia having a cumulative total exceeding 1.5 million Covid-19 cases and 15,000 Covid-19 deaths on the 64th National Day on August 31.
Parliament should be meeting to draft a new policy and strategy to avert these calamitous figures on August 31, but instead Members of Parliament were blocked from Parliament and the Parliament special meeting truncated, after being distracted from focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic with a major constitutional crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Dewan Rakyat meet on August 16 and Dewan Negara meet from August 17 – 19 on completion of the two-week suspension of the Parliament special meeting because of Covid-19 pandemic as advised by Noor Hisham?
Posted by Kit in Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Monday, 2 August 2021
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Today is a black mark in Malaysian parliamentary history.
I do not think anyone, whether in the past, present or future would have thought that there would be a day when Malaysian Members of Parliament would be blocked from the Malaysian Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »
Noor Hisham’s statement about superspreader event in Parliament most unfortunate – where is the evidence?
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Health, Parliament on Monday, 2 August 2021
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The statement by the Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah yesterday that a superspreader event is possible if the special parliamentary sitting proceeds is most unfortunate.
Where is the evidence? Is it just to frighten the MPs? Read the rest of this entry »
The July Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking which placed Malaysia in 52nd spot when in January we were No. 16 out of 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion is the final nail in the coffin about the failure of the emergency and the strategy of the Muhyiddin government in the war against Covid-19 pandemic
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Emergency, Parliament on Monday, 2 August 2021
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The July Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking which placed Malaysia in 52nd spot when in January we were ranked No. 16 out of 53 countries with economies of more than US$200 billion is the final nail in the coffin about the failure of the emergency and the strategy of the Muhyiddin government in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.
For 20 consecutive days since 13th July, we have had five-digit daily new Covid-19 cases, setting a new peak nine times during this short period of 20 days until a daily peak of 17,786 new Covid-19 cases was reported on 31st July. Read the rest of this entry »
Federal government should buy up the 3.2 million doses of excess supply of Covid-19 vaccine held by Pharmaniaga to speed up and complete the national immunisation rollout before 64th National Day or latest by 54th Malaysia Day as the country is in a race of “vaccine vs Delta virus”
The MP for Tanjung Karang, Noh Omar told Parliament last Wednesday that government-linked company Pharmaniaga had 3.2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in excess supply in storage, which has not been denied.
The Federal Government should buy up the 3.2 million doses of excess supply of Covid-19 vaccine held by Pharmaniaga to speed up and complete the national immunisation rollout before 64th National Day on August 31 or latest by 54th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16 as the country is in a race of “vaccine vs Delta virus”. Read the rest of this entry »
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