Malaysia passed two grim milestones in Covid-19 pandemic yesterday – cumulative totals of 2.4 million Covid-19 cases and 28,000 Covid-19 deaths yesterday when we recorded daily 5,745 new Covid-19 cases and 69 Covid-19 deaths.
The cumulative totals for Covid-19 cases and deaths in Malaysia are now 2,401,866 cases and 28,062 deaths respectively.
My “ecstasy” yesterday that Malaysia could reduce new Covid-19 cases by dropping a thousand numeral a day in daily new Covid-19 cases, as happened on Oct. 16 with 7,509 new Covid-19 cases, Oct. 17 with 6,145 new Covid-19 cases and Oct. 18 with 5,434 new Covid-19 cases was dashed when Malaysia recorded 5,745 new Covid-19 cases on Oct. 19, 2021.
This was replaced by the “agony” and the prospect that it is going to be quite a while before Malaysia can reduce daily new Covid-19 cases to three-digit and then double-digit numbers.
It is ironical and shocking that when we declared an Emergency to combat Covid-19 pandemic on January 11, 2021, there were a cumulative total of 138,224 Covid-19 cases and 555 Covid-19 deaths.
When the National Recovery Plan was announced on June 15, 2021, the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases have increased to 667,876 cases and Covid-19 deaths increased to 6,613 deaths.
Now, with cumulative totals of over 2.4 million Covid-19 cases and over 28,000 Covid-19 deaths, all states are in the process of fully re-opening as they are now in Phase 3 (Kelantan, Perak, Penang, Sabah, Kedah, Perlis, Terengganu, Sarawak, Johor) or the final Phase 4 (Malacca, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Pahang, Negri Sembilan, Labuan) of the National Recovery Plan although the country is recording over new 5,000 Covid-19 cases daily and in high double-digit fatality figures daily.
At the present rate of infection, it seems to be tall order for the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, to achieve by his first hundred days on Dec. 7 the targets of ensuring that the cumulative totals of Covid-19 cases and deaths do not reach three million cases and 30,000 deaths respectively.
Malaysia has wasted almost one year in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 20th October 2021)
Malaysia melepasi dua 2.4 juta kes terkumpul dan 28,000 kematian terkumpul akibat Covid-19 semalam
Malaysia melepasi dua 2.4 juta kes terkumpul dan 28,000 kematian terkumpul akibat Covid-19 semalam apabila kita mencatatkan sejumlah 5,745 kes dan 69 kematian akibat Covid-19.
Jumlah kes terkumpul untuk Malaysia kini adalah 2,401,866 kes dan 28,062 kematian akibat Covid-19.
“Kegembiraan” saya semalam dengan negara kita mencatatkan penurunan seribu angka sehari dari jumlah kes baharu, seperti yang berlaku pada 16 Oktober dengan 7,509 kes, disusuli dengan 6,145 kes pada 17 Oktober, dan 5,434 pada 18 Oktober, jelas sekali terlalu awal, apabila negara kita mencatatkan peningkatan kepada 5,745 kes pada 19 Oktober.
Perkara ini digantikan dengan “penderitaan” mengenai kemungkinan yang negara kita bakal mengambil masa yang lama sebelum kita dapat menurunkan kadar kes baharu ini kepada julat tiga angka dan kemudiannya dua angka.
Amat ironi dan mengejutkan semasa kita mengisytiharkan darurat untuk melawan wabak Covid-19 ini pada 11 Januari 2021, kita hanya mencatatkan sejumlah 138,224 kes dan 555 kematian akibat Covid-19.
Semasa Pelan Pemulihan Negara diumumkan pada 15 Jun 2021, jumlah kes terkumpul ini telah meningkat kepada 667,876 kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 pula meningkat kepada 6,613 kematian.
Kini, dengan lebih daripada 2.4 juta kes dan 28,000 kematian akibat Covid-19, semua negeri berada dalam proses untuk pembukaan semula di dalam Fasa 3 (Kelantan, Perak, Pulau Pinang, Sabah, Kedah, Perlis, Terengganu, Sarawak, Johor) atau berada dalam fasa terakhir, Fasa 4 (Melaka, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Pahang, Negeri Sembilan, Labuan) Pelan Pemulihan Negara walaupun kita masih mencatatkan lebih daripada 5,000 kes sehari dan kadar kematian dalam julat dua angka tinggi.
Dengan kadar jangkitan sedia ada ini, kelihatan sukar untuk Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, untuk mencapai sasaran kes dan kematian terkumpul tidak melepasi paras 3 juta dan 30,000 menjelang 100 hari pertama beliau pada 7 Disember.
Kita telah membazirkan hampir setahun dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19.
(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 20 Oktober 2021)
