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PETALING JAYA: A shocking 592 Covid-19 deaths have placed Malaysia as the world’s No. 4 country in daily Covid-19 deaths yesterday.
The country is just behind after Russia (796 Covid-19 deaths), Mexico (699 deaths) and Brazil (635), and it has overtaken United States, India and United Kingdom, the world’s top three countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.
Pointing this out, DAP leader Lim Kit Siang said Malaysia is now in a worse stage than the US in its worst period during the Covid-19 pandemic at the end of the Trump presidency in January 2021.
“Is a daily 592 Covid-19 deaths a new norm for Malaysia?” he asked in a statement today. “Are we still to reach a new peak for daily Covid-19 deaths?
“For Malaysians who still have doubts, this is a fresh reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic poses an existential threat to Malaysia and Malaysians must place a moratorium on all differences and think of the country more than anything else and to unite and single-mindedly win the losing war against the 21-month Covid-19 pandemic.”
The Iskandar Puteri MP said the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, not yet in office for two weeks, must summon a top-level meeting of Malaysians, including experts in the public and private health sectors, to re-strategise how Malaysia can get out of the Covid-19 pandemic which has reached its worst stage after 21 months.
“We must give Malaysians hope and confidence that Malaysians can subordinate their differences in the next 12 to 18 months to win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and reset the institutional and parliamentary structures for Malaysia to set out again to be a world-class great nation.
“When Parliament convenes on Monday, we would be ranked the world’s No. 21 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases as we would have joined 20 other countries with more than two million cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and neared the 21,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths,” he added.
