Wider vaccination and herd immunity are vital to the recovery


KUALA LUMPUR: A stronger push towards wider vaccination and herd immunity will be key to the domestic recovery and should facilitate an economic rebound as emergence of new COVID-19 variant poses high risk, Moody’s Analytics’ economist Sonia Zhu said.

Malaysia's economy contracted by 0.5 per cent year-on-year in the March quarter, following a 3.4 per cent slump in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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