COMMENT | How do we spray 13,000 Covid-19 cases away?

COMMENT | Malaysiakini recently carried an article about Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamarudin who is convinced that the large-scale spraying operation of sanitisation undertaken by her ministry was successful.

I bet many readers, like me, have seen the photos of Zuraida donning a hazmat suit and protective gear while posing with a high-pressure spray, ready to sanitise roads, walkways and pavements with her team back in 2020. Fuyyoh, quite a gung-ho minister she is, I’d say.

According to Zuraida, since the start of the first movement control order (MCO) last year, her ministry has conducted more than 13,000 sanitisation operations. She plans to continue the effort by standardising more sanitisation programmes that will be implemented nationwide.

While I respect her dedication to carry out what she thought was an effective method to curb the transmission of the coronavirus, I wonder if she...