Selangor hamstrung as Covid-19 data-sharing halted

COVID-19 | The Selangor state government is currently “boxing blindfolded” in its Covid-19 response after the Health Ministry allegedly stopped sharing crucial data on positive cases.

This is according to sources as well as officials who were tasked by the state government to plan and execute public health strategies to battle the pandemic.

It was learned that since the first week of October, the Selangor Taskforce for Covid-19 (STFC) no longer received granular data from the Health Ministry, thus hobbling its efforts to contain the outbreak...