{"id":22016,"date":"2021-06-11T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=22016"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:47:33","slug":"pn-continues-to-neglect-malaysias-unsung-heroes-and-front-liners-in-phase-4-of-covid-19-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/pn-continues-to-neglect-malaysias-unsung-heroes-and-front-liners-in-phase-4-of-covid-19-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"PN continues to neglect Malaysia’s unsung heroes and front liners in Phase 4 of Covid-19 vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Press statement by MP for Kepong, Lim Lip Eng on 10 June 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neglected front liners<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n

I refer to the news report yesterday about the Phase 4 Vaccination Programme announced by the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Khairy Jamaluddin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the minister, Phase 4 vaccination programme will start soon from June 14. This will include people who are in manufacturing, export, logistics and transport, energy, utilities industries, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malaysiakini<\/a> article screenshot on Khairy Jamaluddin\u2019s statement. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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However, Khairy has failed to mention or include another group of people who have always been on the frontline to keep our environment clean and safe since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March, 2020. They are the street cleaners, garbage collectors and security guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to know, if they are being left out again, from the priority list this round, when they will be expected to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Calling them the \u201cneglected frontliners\u201d, Lim said cleaners, garbage collectors and security guards are highly exposed…<\/p>Posted by LIM LIP ENG \u6797\u7acb\u8fce<\/a> on Thursday, 10 June 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n\n\n


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Their contribution to our country is irreplaceable and to call them unsung heroes is not at all exaggerating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The street cleaners, for example, are constantly in touch with the household wastes (contaminated face masks), making them particularly vulnerable to the spread of the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So are the security guards who are always in contact with members of the public in both shopping malls and multi-storey residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n

To neglect them would be an injustice committed. Because of their vulnerability and their constant contact with the public, they should be given the due treatments, especially the early Covid-19 vaccination. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n
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MP for Kepong, Lim Lip Eng. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n

The earlier they are inoculated; the lesser risk they could spread the virus in the neighbourhoods they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a shame, therefore, if the government fails to look into their welfare, especially when so many of them do not have the proper safety gears to protect them against the infection of the Covid-19 virus, and they, in return, infect others in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press statement by MP for Kepong, Lim Lip Eng on 10 June 2021:   Neglected front liners   I refer to the news report yesterday about the Phase 4 Vaccination Programme announced by the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Khairy Jamaluddin. According to the minister, Phase 4 vaccination programme will start soon from June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,5,260,274],"tags":[1504,120,1904,1262,1219,1722,1903,422,1723,471,1906,1905,1432],"class_list":["post-22016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamatdarurat","category-cover-story","category-current","category-national","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-dap","tag-garbage-collector","tag-khairy-jamaluddin","tag-lim-lip-eng","tag-national-covid-19-immunisation-programme","tag-negelected-front-liners","tag-perikatan-nasional","tag-pick","tag-pn","tag-security-guard","tag-street-cleaner","tag-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22016","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=22016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22024,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22016\/revisions\/22024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}