'Stronger vaccination push key to economic recovery'

A stronger push towards wider vaccination and herd immunity will be key to the domestic recovery and facilitate an economic rebound as the emergence of new Covid-19 variants pose high-risk, Moody’s Analytics’ economist Sonia Zhu said.

Malaysia's economy contracted by 0.5 per cent year-on-year in the March quarter, following a 3.4 per cent slump in the fourth quarter of 2020.