Govt does not manipulate, hide Covid-19 numbers — Minister
KUANTAN: Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah has stressed that the government does not hide or manipulate Covid-19 statistics.
He said the government was sharing the breakdown of the statistics on Covid-19 positive cases daily to ensure that the people would know the real situation of the outbreak in the country.
“We tell (the people) everything that we know – we don’t keep it to ourselves or hide it. I’m sure our health system is still able to deal with the Covid19 cases for now as many states have moved to Phase 2 under the National Recovery Plan (PPN) due to the capacity of its hospitals,” he said at a press conference after the virtual launch of the Indera Mahkota e-Tuition Programme here yesterday.
He said the National Covid19 Immunisation Programme was being actively carried out as an effort to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection in the country, adding that the vaccination exercise had been running smoothly with over 400,000 doses administered to the people within the past several days.
“It is a crucial figure, with this we believe the health system is capable of dealing with the Covid-19 cases. In fact, foreign media reported Malaysia’s vaccination process as one of the fastest in the world, in line with other developed countries.”
On the free tuition programme, Saifudin, who is Indera Mahkota MP, said a total of 1,674 Form 4 and 5 students from 17 schools in the constituency were involved in the programme.
According to him, the programme is offering six subjects – Bahasa Melayu, English, History, Mathematics, Additional Mathematics and Physics – adding that more subjects would be added as needed.