ALL crises produce heroes or bystanders. Malaysia’s frontline workers of the Covid-19 catastrophe were rightly applauded as national heroes by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in his Royal Address to Parliament on May 18.
Ironically, the institution where this deserving tribute took place has been largely a bystander in the nation’s fight against the pandemic.
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