MP SPEAKS | No excuse to lockdown Parliament
MP SPEAKS | Malaysia should not get the ignominy as the only country in the world which exploited the Covid-19 pandemic situation to lockdown Parliament to avoid oversight and scrutiny and to allow massive abuse of powers, rampant corruption, the revival of kleptocracy and widespread violation of human rights
Although Malaysia should have been spared the second wave of Covid-19 outbreak and kept the Covid-19 infection in a low number without any single fatality, we have performed quite well in fighting the invisible war against the pandemic since the imposition of the movement control order (MCO) on March 18.
MP SPEAKS | Malaysia should not get the ignominy as the only country in the world which exploited the Covid-19 pandemic situation to lockdown Parliament to avoid oversight and scrutiny and to allow massive abuse of powers, rampant corruption, the revival of kleptocracy and widespread violation of human rights
Although Malaysia should have been spared the second wave of Covid-19 outbreak and kept the Covid-19 infection in a low number without any single fatality, we have performed quite well in fighting the invisible war against the pandemic since the imposition of the movement control order (MCO) on March 18.
Since March 18, there were less than a quarter of million Covid-19 confirmed cases in 178 countries and territories and globally less than 9,000 deaths in 70 countries.
In the past 53 days, the Covid-19 pandemic has multiplied 18 times from 218,910 cases to reach over 4.1 million confirmed cases in 219 countries and territories, while global fatalities multiplied 31 times from 8,925 deaths to 280,443 deaths in 182 countries.
On March 18, we were the top 18th country in the world in terms of number of cases, and top 33rd country in terms of Covid-19 deaths.
We are now number 51 in world ranking in terms of number of Covid-19 cases and number 56 in terms of Covid-19 deaths.
We have avoided the horrors of the US, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Russia and Brazil – at one time in the US, the daily increase of Covid-19 cases exceeded 37,000 cases and the daily increase of Covid-19 deaths surpassed 2,500 cases.
However so, we must ensure that we will not be labelled as the only country in the world that exploited the pandemic to lockdown Parliament.
LIM KIT SIANG is member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri.
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