Current approach doesn’t follow the science, says Umno veep

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PETALING JAYA: The way the government has continued to manage Covid-19 after over a year of dealing with it does not reflect the scientific developments that have emerged during the course of the pandemic, Umno vice-president Khaled Nordin has said.

“For example, we are still imposing a months-long lockdown despite multiple warnings against it that have been voiced out by economists, experts and the World Health Organization (WHO),” he said on Facebook.

“The international scientific community has concluded that Covid-19 is endemic, and we have to coexist with it for a long time.”

Khaled said Malaysia should be adopting policies geared towards living with the virus, an approach being considered in many European countries and even neighbouring Singapore.

“In order to realise this, mass testing must be at the forefront. We need to quickly and regularly identify positive cases before a cluster or outbreak of cases happens.

“We need to be able to segregate the ‘positive community’ from the ‘negative community’ without having to put the entire state in lockdown. It would be absurd to impose a lockdown in Seremban simply because there is an outbreak in Nilai,” he said.


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