Dr Mahathir Mohamad criticised the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government for being engrossed with its Covid-19 plans, which he said had proven to be unsuccessful as daily Covid-19 cases in the country hit a high of over 17,000.<br /><br />The Langkawi MP said the PN government was more interested in touting irrelevant figures instead of the proper ways to tackle the pandemic.<br /><br />“It is strange that when the emergency was proclaimed, we recorded daily new cases of 2,000 but now when the government is ending the emergency, we cross the 17,000-mark and this is absurd when it is being done at this time.<br /><br />“This proved what has been said by the opposition parties, including Pejuang, that the emergency was for the government to play politics and was not meant to address Covid-19," he said.
