Malaysia’s COVID-19 response has been a train wreck | Let’s Talk About #74

This episode was filmed on the 5th of August 2021.

Malaysia has set some lofty goals. The target is to get 80% of the country’s population vaccinated. More economic sectors are supposed to loosen. However, cases have now rocketed to a point where we’re hitting over 20,000 positive COVID-19 cases a day. What went wrong? And how can we achieve our goals? On this episode of Let’s Talk About, Amin and Alex discuss.

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