THIS year, Muslims in Malaysia and across the world sacrificed their liberties when celebrating Hari Raya Haji by keeping to practices that limit interaction, in a continuous effort to control the spread of Covid-19.
We know from the plight of friends in Melbourne and Tokyo that the threat of a Covid-19 resurgence – even larger than the first wave – remains.
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
