The government's decision to lift the conditional movement control order (MCO) on many states and the interstate travel ban despite a high number of Covid-19 cases, shows that it can no longer contain the local coronavirus outbreak, says former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.

In a Facebook posting, Najib opined that the government's aim had shifted from fully breaking the chain of infection to mitigating the outbreak while waiting for the vaccine to arrive in Malaysia...