The emergency is not medicine for Covid-19 - this was the argument of Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa in response to complaints that the pandemic was worsening despite a state of emergency.

Annuar was responding to Teluk Intan MP Nga Kor Ming who pointed out on Twitter that the daily new Covid-19 cases on Jan 11, when the emergency took effect, was 2,322 but it had since shot up to over 6,000 a day...