Is the lockdown worse than the disease?


Long-drawn battle: People at a vaccination centre in Kuala Lumpur. It’s a tight race between the speed of new variant generation and the speed of vaccination in the country.

QUESTIONS like when and how will the pandemic end?

When the lockdowns are done haphazardly and disjointedly, questions arise as to whether they should continue.

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