Royal address for first meeting, fifth session of 14th Perak assembly – Sultan Nazrin

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Royal address for first meeting, fifth session of 14th Perak assembly – Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah

HONOURABLE speaker of the House, praise be to Allah, and by the grace of Allah, may He be praised and exalted, we are able to hold this First Meeting in the Fifth Year of the Fourteenth Perak State Assembly.

The Covid-19 pandemic shall go down in history as the most devastating global disaster, affecting not just the world economic performances, disrupting lives, managing healthcare, and food supplies, rather leaving a trail of trauma that still tugs at the emotions of many, poets lament of omnipresent barbs of panic, tourists without destinations, wanderers without directions, explorers without borders, ships docked at ports, airplanes grounded in hangars, trains stranded at stations, flowers withered, farms unattended and livestock forsaken. More heartbreaking is the sight of millions in their death throes. More than 185 nations struggled to rein in the numbers, yet infection levels climbed, unrelenting. Besieged, man is herded into a complicated war with an unseen enemy.

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