The new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin should explain why after two weeks in office, Malaysia is still world’s No. 7 in daily new Covid-19 cases and the world’s Top 3rd nation in daily Covid-19 deaths, and when Malaysia will get out of the world’s Top 20 nations in both categories.
Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 15,669 new Covid-19 cases, ranking as the world’s Top 7th in daily new Covid-19 cases, after United States (117,433 cases), Turkey (27,802 cases), India (27,4290), UK (26,628), Iran (22,329), Philippines (18,056).
In daily Covid-19 deaths which recorded 463 deaths yesterday, Malaysia only lost out to two other countries, namely United States with 1,826 Covid-19 deaths and Brazil (650 deaths). We even beat Iran (408), India (280), Indonesia (250), the Philippines (222) and United Kingdom (185).
In the last 13 days, Malaysia’s daily new Covid-19 cases had been hovering between 15,669 cases yesterday to 21,176 cases on Sept. 10, while Indonesia had been scoring four-digit figures between 2,577 cases on Sept. 13 to 8,955 cases on Sept. 2.
Can Khairy explain the reasons for this great discrepancy between the four-digit cases in Indonesia with the five-digit cases in Malaysia?
In July, Khairy said that the new few months would be most crucial in Malaysia’s journey out of the woods from the Covid-19 pandemic with regard to the National Immunisation Programme (NIP).
But instead of reaching the daily administration of half-a-million dosage of vaccine, there had been stalling in the vaccination process, the target reached was only quarter of a million in the last few days.
Can Khairy explain?