Numbers don’t lie, Rafidah tells Azmin over workplace clusters

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PETALING JAYA: Rafidah Aziz has hit out at international trade and industry minister Azmin Ali for saying factories should not be blamed over the increase in workplace Covid-19 clusters.

Rafidah, who headed the ministry for two decades, said the government’s own statistics revealed that the manufacturing sector accounted for 48% of cases from Covid-19 clusters.

“This is not a ‘blame game’,” she said in a Facebook post today.
Business entities, she added, were suffering, from the “biggest to the smallest”, as well as micro businesses.

“And the infections are continuing to be worrying.”

On Monday, Azmin denied allegations that the manufacturing sector was the biggest contributor to the high number of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia.


He said based on data released by the health ministry, Covid-19 cases involving the manufacturing sector were only between 5% and 10%.

“Therefore, it is not right to blame the economic sector, especially the manufacturing sector,” he said when asked to comment on the call for factories to be closed due to the continued high number of infections.


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