CodeBlue Editor-In-Chief. I also tweet on democracy and social issues, besides health. Political ideology on economy (center right), social issues (liberal).
Sultan Nazrin shows the way in a democracy.
Both PH & BN endorsed Saarani as Perak MB.
Sultan Nazrin also met PN since PN won the highest number of seats and asked if they managed to get majority, which they admitted they didn't.
So Saarani will be sworn in as MB at 5.30.
This is unjust. She reportedly was driving within the speed limit, wasn’t intoxicated etc.
Hope she appeals and gets stay on sentence.
Parents were at fault for letting their kids do the basikal lajak nonsense in the middle of the night.
Sam Ke Ting dihukum 6 tahun penjara, denda RM6,000 selepas didapati bersalah memandu melulu sebabkan kematian 8 remaja berbasikal lajak pada 2017 - Mahkamah Tinggi JB
📸 Shaifuldin Ahmad / BERNAMA
This woman tells Noh Omar that Indonesian citizens rescued children stranded on rooftops, while govt agencies were nowhere in sight.
Yet, the RM1k relief is extended only to Malaysians, even though migrant workers suffered devastating losses too.
This is huge.
Malaysians will not be able to legally buy tobacco when they turn 18 next year, or ever in their lifetime.
Hope all MPs will support this generation endgame to smoking.
This is why Malaysians are so scared of speaking up. When they highlight problems, it’s seen as criticism. And politicians take it personally instead of fixing the problem.
IDCC PPV closed only for a day for sanitization after 200 plus Covid cases were detected, but Parliament can’t sit after only less than 20 cases found?
Plus most MPs have already been double vax.
It is utterly despicable to use a public health crisis for political expediency.
Please don’t use frontliners as your political shield. Budget 2021 didn’t grant contract health workers permanent posts. Budget cuts for public health and health services (accounting shift doesn’t guarantee no cuts in individual specialty). It’s a bad budget that must be revised.
I think Bob Odenkirk for Better Call Saul should have won the Emmy for best actor.
No doubt Squid Game is a fantastic show and Lee is talented, but Odenkirk displayed a far wider and more difficult acting range in BCS that’s much more complicated TV.
Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah has called on young people to be brave, step up and take the initiative to help the world recover to a better normal during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A teen gets fined RM1k for not wearing a mask at a train station. Meanwhile, ministers freely participate in political/ govt gatherings in indoor areas with participants not wearing a mask or wearing it incorrectly. Where is the compassion for the rakyat? Where is rule of law?
Bernama deleted its tweet of its vid of the IGP and KL police chief visiting the 100-Hari Aspirasi Keluarga Malaysia event at KLCC today.
Here's Bernama's vid of the top police officials in a crowd, clearly breaking the social distancing SOP subject to punishment under Act 342.
This is why the govt suspended Umrah travel. Ustaz Abu Syafiq, who has 29k followers on IG, claims he’s unvaccinated and brought unvaccinated people to Saudi.
KJ / MOH aren’t stigmatizing Umrah pilgrims. There is a real behavioral problem, with many not following quarantine.
Sarawakian Doctor Rejected UK Offer To Serve Malaysia. Then MOH Ended Her Contract.
This is only the start. We'll see more jobless young doctors in 2020.
A man has died after he was only admitted in Serdang Hospital after waiting for nearly 30 hours, due to the lack of beds.
This is why govt health care workers are angry and say that the public health care system is in crisis.
This is what a picture of collapse looks like.
Dear lord... Another fire at HSA, amid a police investigation against me over my reports on the findings of the inquiry into the deadly 2016 fire. The consequences of inaction are real.
Looks like Omicron will reach Malaysia sooner rather than later.
Best prepare ourselves.
Get your booster jab if offered, keep up 😷 and avoid crowds where possible.
I think Najib won
#DebatPerdana
overall -- focused on facts and figures and, more importantly, provided his vision for the future (ie: back to the "good old days" under his administration).
Anwar relied on sentiment against corruption, which is fine, but ppl want solutions too.
Environment Minister Tuan Ibrahim, Special Functions Minister Abdul Latiff Ahmad, and NADMA DG Aminuddin Hassim must resign now for their utter failures in managing the flood disaster response.
Do not wait until ppl with nothing to lose are pushed into a corner.
#DaruratBanjir
We are controlling our anger -- by not marching to Putrajaya, dragging ministers out of their offices, and tarring and feathering them.
We're only asking for their resignations.
Kawal kemarahanmu ke atas mereka yang gagal pemimpin.
Kita juga pemimpin dalam kumpulan kecil yang kita ada.
Mantapkan kepimpinan diri untuk jaga sebaiknya komuniti kecil serta pasukan di bawah tanggungjawab kita.
Antara ciri pemimpin hebat, ADA SEMANGAT BERPASUKAN YANG TINGGI
38 people have died from Covid in Malaysia in the first 6 days of 2021, including 3 brought-in-dead cases (2 in Selangor, 1 in Sabah).
We do not know their names or the families they left behind. In stark contrast to other countries, Malaysia doesn't humanise our epidemic.
DG Hisham plans to ⬆️ Covid testing in the field with rapid RTK-Ag during the total lockdown, as he asks all state govts, MPs and ADUNs to help with testing.
Finally MOH is promoting FTTIS -- Find-Test-Trace-Isolate-Support.
Hope the increased testing comes with published data
Sam Ke Ting's car was overturned. She could have died in the accident.
THIRTY kids on basikal lajak were hogging the whole highway -- they broke traffic rules, not Sam.
If I had a kid, I'd make sure they're not out endangering themselves (and others) at 3am.
Today’s cases dropped to 5k plus because testing dropped to 82k, positive rate 6.5% — (successful countries like UK have 0.3% positive rate).
Today’s deaths still high at 82.
>900 in ICU.
In the past, our cases shot back up after lockdown.
So what makes this one different?
Malaysia’s RM10,000 No-Mask Fine 16 Times Higher Than Australia
First-time offenders in Malaysia get a RM10,000 fine for not wearing a face mask, higher than Thai (20,000 baht), Saudi Arabia (SR1,000), Sg (SGD300), NZ (NZD300), & Australia (AUD200).
Titiwangsa MP Johari Ghani delivers a great speech on how neighboring economies like 🇮🇩, 🇻🇳, 🇹🇭, and 🇵🇭 have been growing at a much faster pace than 🇲🇾, warning that political instability will cause 🇲🇾 to fall further behind in years to come. Even cited Sri Lanka as warning.
Why are two MPs touting ivermectin...please don't, Sungai Buloh and Kota Raja.
Promote vaccination, not ivermectin that has no effect on Covid-19 whatsoever.
A major ivermectin paper was retracted because of fraud.
Stop spreading misinformation in Parliament.
Penjelasan KKM berhubung seorang warganegara Perancis yang memakai gelang merah jambu yang ditahan di LTAL.
Individu itu kini dimasukkan di pusat kuarantin di Langkawi.
Baca kenyataan penuh Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan
@DGHisham
South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, and NZ do not fine their people daily thousands of dollars for flouting SOPs. Yet they successfully curbed Covid.
Because they used science, not punishment.
If Malaysia wants to keep deluding herself, go ahead. The world knows better.
Wisma Putra
@MalaysiaMFA
must clarify immediately if First Secretary Fadhilah Daud and other Malaysian diplomats made it safely to Poland or if they’re still safe wherever they are in Ukraine.
Fadhilah is a hero for making a decisive move based on assessments on the ground.
Everyone who enters quarantine tests negative upon arrival in Malaysia from overseas, including the Sivagangga index case. That person was jailed 5 mths and fined RM12k for breaking quarantine, but a minister is exempt? What signal is the govt giving?
Never mind about refusing to abolish Bumi quotas in higher education, but the way Anwar responded to the young woman was so antagonistic & disrespectful.
Kept cutting her off & treated her like a political opponent.
And you wonder why youths feel they’re not taken seriously.
Top 5 wtf MySejahtera moments:
1️⃣ No contract/letter of appointment btw govt & KPISoft
2️⃣ KPISoft/Entomo owned by 🇸🇬 company
3️⃣ Entomo sells MySejahtera IP to MySJ for RM338.6mil
4️⃣ MySJ CEO asks MySejahtera users to DM her fb/twitter
5️⃣ Govt doesn’t know who appointed KPISoft
I remember once, a long time ago, when I was covering something and I referred to the former PM as just "Najib" (coz I don't really care for titles).
And a security guard admonished me by saying, "it's DATUK SERI Najib".
Well then. DATUK SERI Najib is going to prison.
A restaurant owner in Kijal, Kemaman, dead by suicide.
Lockdowns cost lives.
And it’s not as if MCO is preventing the dozens of daily Covid deaths.
Come down from your ivory tower in Putrajaya and understand just how bad the situation is, ministers.
How can Art Harun be Dewan Rakyat Speaker without a vote? It's an elected job, not an appointment from the Executive. Parliament must be independent of the Executive. The Speaker must be voted in by MPs, representatives of the people, not appointed by the PM.
Najib won the first debate round on Sapura Energy.
He explains why a bailout for Sapura is necessary to save thousands of jobs and how this can be done via Petronas taking over Sapura and selling it to the open market later.
Anwar keeps stressing forensic audit.
#DebatPerdana
Azalina is an excellent Speaker, placing great importance on the Legislature. No one can take Budget 2021 for granted and expect it to get a free pass. MPs are the voice of the rakyat; so the Executive should listen to public concerns about the Budget.
House Speaker Azhar Harun issued a notice to all members of Parliament, requesting each and every MPs to send their declaration to nominate only one name as the 9th Prime Minister.
MPs are required to send it to the Istana Negara latest by 4pm on August 18 (Wednesday).
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dilepas tanpa dibebaskan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur pada Isnin, atas 47 tuduhan rasuah, pecah amanah dan pengubahan wang haram (AMLA) membabitkan dana Yayasan Akalbudi.
Hakim, Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah (kini Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan)…
Okay this is a train wreck of a debate. Syahir just cannot talk about the economy at all. Just keeps talking about religion and completely unrelated things. I hope the moderators will switch tack and ask Rafizi tough questions. Syahir is gone case, completely off track.
KKM Mungkin Haramkan Vape Sepenuhnya
What a nonsensical suggestion -- banning vape but allowing cigarettes in the name of public health. That applies to other countries who instituted such a ridiculous ban too.
Screenshots of MySJ Sdn Bhd CEO designate Aiza Azreen Ahmad's posts in the Malaysia Quarantine Support Group Facebook group on her assistance for MySejahtera app issues -- asking ppl to DM her personal fb account their MySejahtera ID (phone no/email) and screenshots of vax certs.
Govt really doesn't gaf about Covid or Omicron.
This 100 Hari Aspirasi Keluarga Malaysia event is utterly irresponsible and makes a mockery of the blood, sweat, and tears shed by frontliners in trying to keep Malaysians safe.
These pix posted on KDN's fb page, siap watermark.
Titiwangsa should be our finance minister. All of his debates in Parliament are top quality, and he can just throw numbers off the top of his head, compared to many other ministers/ deputy ministers that read prepared text.
Why is
@501Awani
featuring an anti-vaxxer? Please cancel this program unless the interviewers challenge his anti-vax claims.
We have enough problems with vaccine hesitancy and apathy.
Why did Hulu Langat MP Hasanuddin Mohd Yunus (Amanah) not follow minimum 7-day quarantine upon returning from Pakistan?
Dec 19: In Pakistan, trying to fly home
Dec 22 at 12.30am: Back in Hulu Langat, out and about
Dec 23: In Pusat Operasi Banjir Parlimen Hulu Langat
Padang Rengas MP Nazri is on fire in Dewan, strongly rejecting the unilateral conversion of children to Islam.
He says common usage of "ibu bapa" means father and mother (ibu bapa), not "ibu atau bapa".
Unilateral conversion of children is "not fair", says Nazri.
Please, no. MPs, please don’t support this. It will only victimise ordinary Malaysians who will likely get fined RM10k on the spot just for not wearing face masks or not physically distancing. And they’ll go to jail if they can’t pay the fine. RM10k is nothing for rich ministers.
Singapore’s MOH launches a retention incentive scheme for both local and foreign nurses called ANGEL that awards nurses in public health care up to S$100,000 (RM356,818) over 20 years. Foreign nurses are eligible for ANGEL after serving at least 4 years.
The Kuantan man took a bus from klia2 to the TBS terminal in KL and another bus to Kuantan, and also visited Seremban and Nilai in Negri Sembilan, before testing positive for Covid-19.
After nine months of Covid, I do not understand why the entire top leadership of government held a physical meeting within a week after the Sabah election, when many of them campaigned there. Who's going to run the country if all the ministers and top govt officials fall sick?
RM10k fine just for not scanning MySejahtera at a restaurant. And if the person can't pay, they end up in jail, as if we aren't seeing regular Covid clusters in overcrowded prisons and detention centres as it is.
Has the govt lost sight of what a CRIMINAL offence really is?
Laws NOT PASSED in Parliament.
If you criticise it, they can say you are criticising the emergency order, label it as "fake news" and give you another RM 100,000 fine...or throw you in jail..
Dear Minister
@Zaliha_DrZ
&
@DGHisham
, can you please put an end to the witch-hunt against the health care workers who spoke to CodeBlue/ participated in our survey?
They're getting worried because of increasingly active investigations to uncover their identity.
Thank you.
Regardless of whoever wins the Anwar-Najib debate on Sapura, it's great to finally see a formal debate between political rivals.
Hope this will be the culture moving forward in elections so that Malaysia will focus on policies and ideas, not personalities.
#DebatPerdana
98% of 220 MPs have been vaccinated with at least one dose, including 82% fully vaccinated.
90% of Parliament staff are fully vaccinated.
Full reopening of country under NRP based on 60% full vax.
Also 2 weeks’ delay makes no difference. Virus transmitted by ppl, not a place.
Trevor Noah at White House Correspondents Dinner.
"Do you read any of your own newspapers? You guys spent the last 2 years telling everyone the importance of wearing 😷 & avoiding large indoor gatherings. The second someone offers you a free dinner, you all turn into Joe Rogan."
Why is Pakatan introducing so many taxes? Digital tax, departure levy, sugar tax. Netflix and Spotify, and cheap Asean vacays are the few things that help distract us from the almost weekly shenanigans in Malaysia. STOP TAXING THE MIDDLE CLASS!
"In HKL, there are about 70 MOs in a department, but here, in my hospital [in Pahang], we only have 5-6 MOs running a department."
"The rate of MOs quitting is at least 2 per month in my hospital atm. Many are under psychiatry clinic consultation."
With all due respect, sir, you declared you’re a PM for all Malaysians upon taking office. You did not say you’re a PM only for Muslims. Banning pubs and bars will cause hardworking Malaysians to lose their jobs in a pandemic. Malaysians have the right to consume alcohol.
Malaysia's Covid-19 vaccination rate now exceeds UK, EU, US.
Malaysia: 75% total pop at least one dose (including 66% fully vaccinated)
UK: 72% (66%)
EU: 68% (64%)
US: 65% (56%)
We're among the vaccination stars in Asia.
(SG doesn't count coz smaller than Klang Valley) 😅
This doesn't make sense. If Khairuddin wasn't given a home quarantine order, according to police, then why did MOH compound him RM1k and why did he pay it? What was the fine for, if he supposedly didn't commit an offence?
KKM needs to defend their own PrEP program.
HIV medication has nothing to do with religion.
Religious authorities cannot overstep their jurisdiction and tell health care professionals what to do/ what not to do.
Everyone has the right to health care without discrimination.
Flash floods are unacceptable in 2020. This is the result of bad city planning. The present FT Minister is from Kelantan; the previous from Selangor. They're not KLites. Abolish the FT Ministry & return local council elections so we can vote out non-performing mayor/ councillors.
Heavy rain caused flash floods in the Klang Valley this evening. The KL Fire & Rescue Department says water levels are as high as 1.5m in Lebuh Ampang, Jalan Raja Alang and Jalan Gurney.
Khairy is not the first non-medically trained health minister; Dzulkefly Ahmad and Chua Jui Meng did not have medical degrees either.
Chua, the longest-serving health minister from 1995-2004, handled Nipah, JE, and SARS outbreaks during his tenure.
The police have launched an investigation over my article on Covid-19 cases at Setia City Convention Centre PPV.
I do not appreciate the State's attempts to intimidate and silence me, especially when CodeBlue has been fair and balanced in reporting on the vaccination program.
Moderna is among the most expensive Covid vaccines priced at up to US$37 per dose.
Pfizer: US$19.50/ dose.
Sinovac: US$14/ dose.
The Malaysian govt certainly can't afford to purchase Moderna. Nothing to do with corruption or some crony deal.
How to add Covid vaccine cert to iPhone Wallet and Health:
1. Download vaccine cert PDF from MySejahtera
2. Use QR code scanner to scan Dose 1.
3. Tap "Add to Wallet & Health".
4. Tap "Done".
5. Repeat Steps 2-4 for Dose 2 & Booster.
🇲🇾 cert accepted by 🇪🇺, no need vax for 🇬🇧
I want to say this before Emergency comes in -- it will be very difficult for the media to report openly on Covid. CodeBlue has tried our best to shed light and push for transparency on the Covid crisis, especially in Sabah. But an Emergency will strip away all civil liberties.
My colleague Ashswita and I interviewed
@DrAdhamBaba
last Wed. Adham gets lots of flak, but to be fair to him, MOH officers I talked to are happy with the minister because he doesn’t interfere with the running of the civil service in MOH. He lets the professionals do their job.
I do not feel safe in this country anymore.
To those in power who started the fire, look at what you've done.
You started the fire. And now the fire (literally) has gone out of control.
JUST IN
Another KK Mart branch was attacked using a fire bomb this morning.
The incident happened after 5am at KK Mart outlet in Sg Isap, Kuantan.
However, workers managed to put off the fire using extinguisher.
Kuantan OCPD Wan Zahari Wan Busu confirmed,police investigating.
“'You’re no longer eligible to be paid as per UF44, we will deduct the sum of money that we overpaid you and start paying you with a lower wage because you’re now UF41'. This was the final straw. It’s not the money, it’s the gesture" – pharmacist who quit
I'm quite disgusted with the MySejahtera affair and attempted shortcuts to profit from a Covid app.
38 mil users were FORCED to download MySejahtera.
I get it, business is business and the govt monumentally screwed up by not creating a contract -- but this is all so unethical.
Terrible. Never in history have the media been banned from covering Parliament, not even during Najib's time. And now a journalist has fainted. Parliament is more than House proceedings. Media want to cover to catch MPs on various issues because MPs are accountable to the ppl.
A media personnel fainted while reporting from outside
@MYParlimen
.
No other media outlets, except official media were permitted to attend the one-day parliament sitting.
@msianinsight
📸 Mastura
Under UK's new travel rules, Malaysians can only travel to UK without 10-day quarantine upon arrival if they are fully vaccinated with Pfizer/ AZ/ Moderna/ Janssen.
Nearly half of Malaysians received Sinovac, a vaccine recognized by WHO.
UK's vax passport is discriminatory.
How did MACC get the audio recordings? How can civil servants secretly record the PM's office phone? Or did the police order wiretaps on the PM? Processes must be made clear to guide any future investigations in any administration, with clear whistleblower protections.
Dah dengar rakaman yang didedah
@SPRMMalaysia
membabitkan perbualan Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor bersama Datuk Seri
@najibrazak
?
Ini video penuh rakaman tersebut.
Disgusting racist and sexist behavior from the religious affairs minister and deputy HR minister, both from PAS.
Language isn’t the issue. They can reply in BM instead of resorting to personal attacks against FMT’s
@MinderjeetK
.
Is this Keluarga Malaysia
@IsmailSabri60
?
Is rape considered life/ death, PDRM?
If I got raped in whatever I’m wearing, am I expected to change out of it —despite potential evidence on my clothes — just to look “acceptable” at the police station?
When did police care more about “morals” then solving crime?
do you know how heartbreaking are the personal stories by health care workers?
the doctor who microsleeps while driving after working 36 hrs — you think they don't have family who'll mourn if they die in a crash?
the radiologist forced to work far away from kid & sick parents?
Opening new hospitals w/o staff.
"For both Hospital Cyberjaya and Hospital Pendang, there has been no core team formation or core staff identified. Currently, Hospital Cyberjaya is not even running at 20% capacity because it is severely understaffed."
“Ex-Malaysians” who write anonymous letters to the editor from abroad are cowards.
If you believe in something, put your name to your opinion, especially when you don’t face any ramifications, unlike civil servants here who are still trying to fight the good fight.
The Prasarana CEO must resign within 24 hours for this disaster of epic proportions.
How much productivity losses will the Klang Valley see over the next week (or longer)?
How much more do people have to pay for alternative transport to work?
This is completely unacceptable.
Senators are asking KJ a lot of tough questions about MySejahtera in Dewan Negara.
This is probably among the hottest Dewan Negara sessions in years.
If Senators are this tough, I can't imagine Dewan Rakyat if the Lower House is allowed to do a special sitting on MySejahtera.
So it's ok for a public university to host a supremacist rally filled with speeches bordering on hate speech against minorities, but not for a student to protest against his uni sanctioning racism? Hope PH will give him legal aid.
TERKINI: Universiti Malaya (UM) menfailkan laporan polis terhadap graduan yang melakukan protes sejurus menerima ijazah semasa Sidang Ke-5 Istiadat Konvokesyen UM kali Ke-59, semalam.
UM sifatkan tindakan itu sebagai biadab serta tidak menghormati istiadat.
@501Awani
Government Slashes 2021 Medical, Public Health Budgets Amid Covid Crisis
Under MOH’s Budget 2021, nephrology received a 78% budget cut with an RM56.5 million allocation, while the cancer treatment budget was slashed by 10 times to about RM21 million.
I am being investigated under the Penal Code & Official Secrets Act over my articles on the declassified findings of the independent investigation into the 2016 fire at Hospital Sultanah Aminah that killed 6 patients. Police are interviewing me at 2pm today at IPD Putrajaya.
People should not be arrested for asking questions about the Covid vaccination program or management of the epidemic.
Vaccines, health care resources, and useless (and harmful) chemicals sprayed on sidewalks are paid for with taxpayers’ money.
Govt must be transparent.
Perikatan Nasional’s event announcing GE15 candidates showed a disgustingly racist campaign video that attacked Pakatan Harapan.
BN’s event didn’t stoop so low.
Zahid didn’t mention Harapan or Perikatan at all in his speech.
BN’s GE15 music video shows some happy 1 🇲🇾 thing.
889 cases in Sabah (72% of nationwide 1,228 infections), record high in the state. Yet, MOH statement devotes 5 paragraphs to Selangor, despite <100 cases. Why are we not focusing on Sabah, which has 12x more cases than Selangor today? Sabah's health system is far weaker too.
Status Terkini COVID-19 Di Malaysia,
24 Okt 2020
Kes sembuh=671
Jumlah kes sembuh=16,555 kes
Kes baharu positif=1,228
(kes import=11, kes tempatan=1217)
Jumlah positif=25,742 kes
Kes kematian=7
Jumlah kes kematian=221 kes
Kes dirawat di ICU=92 kes
Bantuan Alat Pernafasan=31 kes
K-KOMM sedang berkerja keras menyiapkan portal permohonan on line bagi PerantiSiswa yg di jangka di buka 15hb ini.Urusan perolehan juga sedang di urus oleh K-KOMM dan MOF.(foto hiasan)
In support of
@luqmanhriz
and
@501Awani
. Journalism is not a crime.
The rakyat is suffering. Awani did right criticizing cruel RM50k fines on poor traders over SOPs.
Go investigate corruption instead of going after journalists for hurting your feelings, PDRM.
#pressfreedom
If you're really serious about helping, then please stop the public sanitisation exercise and divert the millions of taxpayers' money to food baskets or cash aid to people suffering during the lockdown.
India sets an RM8.50 limit for COVID-19 vaccination services by private hospitals, after PM announced a centralized vaccine drive.
In Malaysia, private sector charging RM50-RM380 for jabs with vaccines supplied by the govt and paid for by taxpayers.
The rakyat flattened the curve. Politicians brought the virus back. If enforcers and civil servants, who receive regular salaries throughout MCO funded by taxpayers, are unable to do their job in applying SOPs fairly to everyone, please quit. It's fine if you can't do your job.