YOURSAY | Vaccination should be for all, including every foreign worker
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Manjit Bhatia: I ll believe this hype when and if it happens. It might just turn out to be another bit of Perikatan Nasional (PN) hubris.
Incidentally, it is not the “government” that is “bearing the huge cost of containing the pandemic among the migrant worker population, including quarantine and treatment”.
Remember basic economics - governments do not have money, per se. Governments raise money through mostly taxes (in Malaysia s case, including corruption).
It is as usual taxpayers who are bearing the cost of Covid-19 wherever and whoever it infects. And there are fewer than 15 million taxpayers in Malaysia.
South Africa registered a further 1,102 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the cumulative total to 1,492,909. A further 195 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, bringing the total to 48,094 deaths.
Covid-19 cases drop to lowest since Jan 11 and other news you may have missed
Modified15 Feb 2021, 2:16 am
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KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief
1. The number of new Covid-19 cases dropped to its lowest since Jan 11, and there were 2,000 fewer active cases.
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Malaysiakini speaks to musician Wani Ardy, who was born without a uterus and with an underdeveloped vagina, about her quest to normalise conversations on sexual health.
3. The two police officers alleged to have harassed women drivers at roadblocks have been identified and are under investigation.
4. Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin nudged the Home Ministry to ensure there will not be a repeat of the rape incident of a 16-year-old girl at the Miri central police station lock-up.