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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — Malaysia cannot afford, in the economic and welfare aspects, to implement a lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said today. He said on the other hand, the government’s strategy to contain the pandemic was to implement mitigation strategies. “There is no doubt that China’s approach (to enforce a lockdown) has been effective. “However, their containment and ‘Zero Covid’ strategy also means a total lockdown (is enforced) when there are only three positive cases,” Khairy said in a Twitter post today. In his tweet, Khairy also attached a screenshot of a...
