Yesterday, Malaysia set two new records breaking the 1.9 million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases with 1,900,467 cases and breaking the 19,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths with a total of 19,163 deaths.
My worst fears will come true – when we celebrate our 58th Malaysia Day in a week’s time on Sept. 16, we would have passed the two million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases as well as passed the 20,000-mark for total Covid-19 deaths.
We will overtake Iraq tomorrow to be ranked No.22 in the world among nations for the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and overtake Netherlands to be ranked No. 21 by Sunday on Sept. 12 before Parliament reconvenes on Sept. 13.
At the present rate of infection and death, we will have passed the two million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases when Parliament reconvenes on Sept. 13 and have passed the 21,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths when we celebrate our 58th National Day on Sept. 16, 2021.
Because of the 14-day incubation period for Covid-19 cases, there are no signs that since the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, was sworn in on August 30, that Malaysia is on a downward decline from probably the world’s longest Covid-19 wave since last September.
We are still the world’s top sixth country for both daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths (despite official suggestion that Covid-19 death figures in Malaysia are an underestimate).
I am most disappointed that Khairy has not honoured what he promised in Kota Kinabalu on Monday, i.e. to make further announcements and explanations on the high number of Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths when he gets the new data yesterday.
Khairy said in Kota Kinabalu on Monday that the high number of Covid-19 deaths reported daily did not reflect the actual number of fresh deaths that occur within 24 hours, as the numbers were sometimes piled up over several days as the authorities need time to confirm the cause of death, especially in places like the Klang Valley.
When Khairy said that the daily death reports were not necessarily from the last 24 hours, as there was “a long backlog because we have to confirm the cause of death is from Covid-19 and not something else”, he was clearly saying that the BID Covid-19 death figures should be very much higher.
I am very disappointed that Khairy had not announced the new data which he had received as he had promised to be transparent and to provide more detailed Covid-19 data to the public.
Yesterday, there were 102 BID Covid-19 deaths out of the total of 361 daily Covid-19 deaths, which is the third time in the last 10 days when BID Covid-19 deaths were in triple-digit figures.
Before August 30, there were two days when BID Covid-19 deaths were in triple-digit numbers – 101 BID Covid-19 death cases on August 15 and 100 BID cases on August 26.
Malaysians are waiting for results as Khairy had promised to give priority to resolve the problem of high BID Covid-19 deaths.
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 9th September 2021)
Malaysia mencatatkan rekod baharu kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 dan Khairy mengecewakan rakyat Malaysia apabila beliau gagal memenuhi janjinya untuk mengumumkan maklumat lanjut mengenai kadar kematian dan BID yang tinggi
Semalam, negara kita mencatatkan dua lagi rekod baharu, mencapai 1.9 juta kes terkumpul Covid-19 dengan 1,900,467 kes dan melepasi paras 19,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 dengan sejumlah 19,613 kematian.
Kebimbangan saya kelihatannya akan menjadi kenyataan, di mana ketika menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-58 dalam masa seminggu lagi pada 16 September, kita akan sudah melepasi paras dua juta kes terkumpul dan juga 20,000 ribu kematian akibat Covid-19.
Kita akan melepasi kedudukan Iraq di tempat ke-22 dengan jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi di dunia, sebelum mengatasi kedudukan Belanda di tempat ke-21 pada hari Ahad, 12 September, sehari sebelum Parlimen bersidang semula pada hari Isnin, 13 September.
Pada kadar semasa jangkitan dan kematian akibat Covid-19, kita akan melepasi paras 2 juta kes terkumpul apabila Parlimen bersidang pada 13 September dan melepasi paras 21,000 kematian semasa Hari Malaysia ke-58 pada 16 September 2021.
Kerana ada tempoh inkubasi selama 14 hari untuk kes Covid-19, belum ada petanda sejak Khairy mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan yang baharu pada 30 Ogos yang negara kita sedang berada dalam arah penunjukkan penurunan kes Covid-19 dalam gelombang penularan terlama di dunia yang bermula pada bulan September tahun lepas ini.
Kita masih lagi negara keenam dengan kadar jangkitan baharu tertinggi dah kematian baharu tertinggi (walaupun ada pendapat yang mengatakan yang kadar kematian di Malaysia terkurang kira).
Saya amat kecewa kerana Khairy tidak memenuhi janjinya di Kota Kinabalu pada hari Isnin, iaitu untuk membuat pengumuman dan penjelasan mengenai angka kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID) yang tinggi apabila beliau mendapatkan data baharu semalam.
Khairy mengatakan di Kota Kinabalu pada hari Isnin yang angka tinggi kematian Covid-19 yang dilaporkan ini tidaklah mencerminkan angka kematian yang sebenarnya dalam tempoh 24 jam terakhir kerana angka ini kadang-kalanya terkumpul untuk beberapa hari kerana pihak berkuasa memerlukan masa untuk mengesahkan punca kematian, terutamanya di tempat seperti di Lembah Klang.
Semasa Khairy mengatakan yang angka kematian kematian ini tidak semestinya daripada 24 jam yang lepas kerana terdapat backlog yang panjang untuk mengesahkan punca kematian, beliau jelas sekali mengatakan yang kadar kematian BID akibat Covid-19 ini sebenarnya jauh lebih tinggi.
Saya amat kecewa kerana Khairy tidak mengumumkan data baharu yang diterimanya kerana beliau telah berjanji untuk bersifat lebih telus dan memberikan maklumat berkenaan Covid-19 yang lebih terperinci kepada orang awam.
Semalam, terdapat 102 kematian yang dibawa ke hospital daripada sejumlah 361 kematian akibat Covid-19, yang merupakan hari ketiga dalam 10 hari yang lepas di mana kes BID melepasi paras tiga angka.
Sebelum 30 Ogos, hanya dua hari mencatatkan kadar BID melepasi julat tiga angka — 101 dan 100 kematian BID pada 15 dan 26 Ogos.
Rakyat Malaysia masih menunggu hasil daripada janji Khairy untuk menyelesaikan masalah kadar kematian di bawa ke hospital yang tinggi ini.
(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 9 September 2021)
