With large swathes of Malaysia, including Sarawak, now being re-designated as Red Zones owing to a surge in cases of Covid across most of the country, it is becoming ever clearer that slow vaccine roll out has become a major problem in tackling the disease after a year of punitive orders that have appeared as much political as health driven.
Under the personal urging of the Agong, Parliament pushed through a budget to release huge sums for purchasing vaccines in November, after which a ‘State of Emergency’ was called anyway followed by ’emergency ordinances’ that have allowed the minority coup government to continue to raise sums without scrutiny.