KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 — DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today commended Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin for appointing an Opposition MP as the Covid-19 coordinator for Penang.
“This appointment of Steven Sim was necessary to find a joint collaborative effort to break the rise in Covid-19 infections that caused Penang to record amongst the highest infections, deaths, Intensive care unit beds and ventilator utilisation per capita in Malaysia,” Lim said in a statement today.
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