The Covid-19 resurgence highlights the dangers we continue to face until a safe and effective vaccine can successfully control the pandemic. However, equally dangerous are the elements of discrimination in the midst of our global battle against infectious disease.
Filling up the MySejahtera form and similar screening surveys have become a routine process in this Covid-19 new norm. For many of us, the screening is only as a cursory procedure. We can answer ‘No’ to the questions and be deemed ‘Low risk’, and we are allowed to enter a premise without the blink of an eye.
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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.
