Veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang is calling for a national conference to adopt a collective strategy to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, even as reports emerge that Pakatan Harapan and other opposition lawmakers are considering appealing to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to revoke last week's emergency declaration.

"The proclamation of emergency last Tuesday is no bar for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to convene a special Parliament immediately to authorise the convening of a national conference on an 'all-of-government' and 'whole-of-society' strategy and approach under the auspices of Parliament in the war against the pandemic."

Claiming that the executive leadership of the country under Muhyiddin had...