PETALING JAYA: As Covid-19 figures surged over the weekend, social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye
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The Alliance For Safe Community chairman said the current Covid-19 pandemic situation is at a critical stage at present, as cases are surging past 6,000 a day. The time has come for every Malaysian to exercise self-lockdown. If you are patriotic, then lock yourself down for two weeks. Go out only when it s necessary, such as to the clinics or to get food, he said.
KUALA LUMPUR: Authorities should source vaccines other than Pfizer, Sinovac and AstraZeneca to speed up the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
PETALING JAYA: Compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) must continue even after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
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“This is no time to debate over what activities are allowed and what are not. Or what should be allowed and what shouldn’t.
“Let’s do a voluntary lockdown only for a specific two-week period to bring down the curve and help our health authorities to cope with the situation, ” Lee said in a press statement on Sunday (May 9).
The Alliance For Safe Community chairman said this after a dire warning from Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah that complacency in fighting Covid-19 could result in over 5,000 daily infections by the end of this month if no drastic action was taken to curb the spread of the virus.
PETALING JAYA: There should be a multi-pronged approach by state departments and highway authorities to ensure fewer animals get killed on our roads, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
Responding to the recent slew of roadkill, the Alliance for Safe Community chairman said this was due to decades of encroachment into wildlife habitats.
The issue, he said, needed consideration and collaboration between highway authorities, the Works Ministry and state wildlife departments to work out a solution. A Star Metro report on Thursday (May 6) reported that more than 100 wild animals have been killed in accidents in Johor since 2019.
This included seven tapirs that were killed since January this year.