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PETALING JAYA: Any type of motion control order (MCO) should be more specific in specific areas and other areas that are not affected should be set aside, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (pix) said today.
This is to minimize the disruption of economic activities, the senior politician said in a statement issued after a joint press conference with former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
“Boosting our economy must be a higher priority going forward,” Razaleigh said. “We should do much more to help our poorest and most vulnerable Rakyat, who are facing serious difficulties, many of them out of work and struggling to feed their families.
“We must do whatever it takes to make sure no one goes hungry, not even for a day. Hunger, if it occurs, would be the greatest sin in our society and the government has a responsibility to ensure that it does not happen.
The Gua Musang deputy called on the government to be very careful in procuring safe and effective vaccines that must also be suitable for our hot and tropical climate.
“My main concern here is Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine, which uses new technology and needs to be stored at minus 80 ° C. It is being used in humans now for the first time (in the UK so far) and its clinical trials have been done very hastily, ”he said.
“A vaccine, unlike normal medicine, is given to healthy people, including children. Therefore, long-term safety aspects must be properly addressed.
“I have also been told that we do not have enough specialized storage facilities, complex logistical capacity, IT and monitoring infrastructure and specially trained health personnel to carry out mass vaccination of the Pfizer vaccine on 6.4 million people throughout the world. country. I strongly urge the government to reconsider this deal with Pfizer. “
Razaleigh also noted that many schools and universities have been closed and statistics on this issue appear to be lacking.
“I am very concerned that the teachers who were asked to teach online have not received adequate training to do so,” he said.
“There are also many rural areas that do not have access to the Internet and now there is a compelling reason for the government to do more to close the digital divide.”
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