Rulers to meet over Covid-19 crisis, says report

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As Covid-19 crisis deepens, Malaysia's royal households set to intervene

KUALA LUMPUR - The heads of Malaysia's nine royal households are set to hold an emergency meeting next Wednesday (June 16), to discuss the country’s Covid-19 crisis, according to senior political and royal household sources.

The sources said this session will be preceded by separate private discussions this week between the King, Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah, and leaders of registered political parties to get feedback on the government’s handling of the pandemic.

Royal household sources told The Straits Times that the rulers' meeting next Wednesday, which will be held after lunch at the national palace in the capital Kuala Lumpur, was decided a few days ago, owing to the worsening Covid-19 health crisis, stumbles in the vaccine roll-out campaign, and growing calls to end the state of emergency and allow Parliament to convene.

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