{"id":16951,"date":"2020-10-30T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T05:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=16951"},"modified":"2020-10-30T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:17:59","slug":"show-unity-and-discipline-to-prove-wrong-the-projection-that-there-will-be-15000-active-cases-in-malaysia-by-nov-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/show-unity-and-discipline-to-prove-wrong-the-projection-that-there-will-be-15000-active-cases-in-malaysia-by-nov-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Show unity and discipline to prove wrong the projection that there will be 15,000 active cases in Malaysia by Nov. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Media Statement by Member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on 29 October 2020:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sabah general election is Malaysia\u2019s Covid-19 super-spreader event but  Malaysians must show unity and discipline to prove wrong the modelling projection of academicians that there will be 15,000 active cases in Malaysia by Nov. 8<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is bizarre following the United States Presidential election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia is struggling to ensure that we avoid four-digit daily increase of Covid-19 infections, although we have failed twice on the 24th<\/sup> and 26th<\/sup> October  when we recorded 1,228 and 1,240 Covid-19 new cases respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States is not struggling to avoid a\u00a0four-digit daily increase, but to avoid seven-digit daily increase, recording more than 84,000 new Covid-19 cases last Friday \u2013 which is about thrice of the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia after nine months of the Covid-19 pandemic, viz: 29,441 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday in one single day, 1,038 Americans died of Covid-19, which is about four times the cumulative total of Malaysians casualties after nine months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday was a day of many grim milestones for the Covid-19 pandemic. For the first time, global daily increase of Covid-19 infections exceeded the half-a-million mark, as the Covid-19 world-o-meter website recorded a daily increase of 500,764 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took 13 weeks for the first million Covid-19 cases to be recorded in the world, but the exponential increase of the Covid-19 pandemic is such that it now takes two days for the global million mark of daily increase to be recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second global grim milestone is that the United States has crossed the nine million mark for total Covid-19 infections, together with more than 230,000 fatalities. India, the second top nation in the world for the most Covid-19 cases, has passed the eight million mark, while there are eight countries with over a million cases \u2013 after United States and India are Brazil, Russia, France, Spain, Argentina and Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet we have Donald Trump closing his re-election campaign by pleading with voters to ignore the evidence of a calamity unfolding before their eyes and trust his word that the disease is already disappearing as a threat to their personal health and economic well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If Trump loses in next week US presidential election, as most analysts predict, he will be defeated not so much by Joe Biden but by the Covid-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States and Europe are not examples for Malaysians to follow in the war against the Covid-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We already have the recent Sabah state general election as a Covid-19 super-spreader event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysians must show greater unity and discipline to forge an \u201call-of-government\u201d and \u201cwhole-of-society\u201d war against the Covid-19 epidemic and prove wrong\u00a0the modelling projection of academicians that there will be 15,000 active cases by November 8, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lim Kit Siang,
Member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media Statement by Member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on 29 October 2020: Sabah general election is Malaysia\u2019s Covid-19 super-spreader event but  Malaysians must show unity and discipline to prove wrong the modelling projection of academicians that there will be 15,000 active cases in Malaysia by Nov. 8 It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,274],"tags":[464,367,120,982,985,984,25,369,983,471,306,853,974,975],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","category-national","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-dap","tag-discipline","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-lim-kit-siang","tag-malaysia","tag-pandemic","tag-pn","tag-sabah","tag-united-states","tag-whole-of-government","tag-whole-of-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17010,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions\/17010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}