Politics and pandemic - PN's 'unfortunate' balancing act
The Perikatan Nasional (PN) alliance seized federal power through a political coup orchestrated amid a pandemic, forcing the new prime minister and his cabinet to hit the ground running to contain the outbreak.
At first, the measures implemented yielded positive results as the number of cases began to dwindle. But things soon spiralled out of control.
Since the first Covid-19 case was...
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