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Covid-19, political crises ravage Malaysia while emperors big and small fiddle

Malaysia is beset by multiple crises, not least, a political one that has hamstrung health and economic responses. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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KUALA LUMPUR - An unborn child was lost after the police said a bleeding mother was not an emergency worthy of seeking immediate treatment outside a lockdown zone.

And a nine-month-old became the youngest victim of a failure to curb a worsening Covid-19 outbreak that persistently sets new infection and death records.

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