100 Million Cases and Malaysia is Ranked #58 in the World

The world has passed 100 million Covid-19 cases! The upsurge is just crazy! 

Bahrain and Kenya have joined the C100K grouping, making it a grand total of 81 countries. Combined together, they constitute 97.9% and 98.2% of global infections and fatalities respectively.

In case, Malaysians are interested to know, the country is now ranked #58 in the world, reflecting our abject failure to contain the rampaging pandemic. 

World Health Organization’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (right) issued a stern warning on Monday: "I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries". 

He was referring to unequal Covid vaccine policies. He had claimed that over 39 million vaccine doses had been given in 49 richer states – but one poor nation had only 25 doses. 

The WHO chief called for a full commitment to the global vaccine-sharing scheme Covax, which is due to start rolling out next month. 

Last month, the People's Vaccine Alliance coalition of campaigning bodies said that rich countries were hoarding doses of Covid vaccines and people living in poor countries were set to miss out. 

They alleged that nearly 70 lower-income countries would only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people. Canada, in particular, came in for criticism, with the coalition saying the North American nation had ordered enough vaccine doses to protect each Canadian five times!

Hogging vaccines endangers the whole world!