Scholar: Malaysia’s virus fight above expectation


PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is beating brutal Covid-19 expectations, says Stewart Nixon, a research scholar at Australian National University (ANU).

According to Nixon – who is experiencing the movement control order (MCO) firsthand as a research visitor at Universiti Malaya – to the casual observer, the country’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak may seem bungled.

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