ENGISH (Versi Bahasa dibawah)
PRESS RELEASE
GERAKAN EKONOMI MALAYSIA (PPM-013-10-01022021)
1. We laud and welcome prominent economist, Prof. Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram call for government to adopt a ‘Look East’ policy in its battle against Covid-19.
2. We are wasting resources in the wrong approach against the Covid-19 and it is at the cost of a prolonged economic downturn.
3. The budget allocated for 2021 was for post-recovery stage 5; ‘Revitalise’ of the Strategy 6R approach namely Resolve, Resilience, Restart, Recovery, Revitalise and Reform. We are far from Recovery.
4. This resulted in significantly less budgetary resources available to overcome the pandemic and as a result, the spread of Covid-19 cannot be contained.
5. Even with the State of Emergency declared, funds are not being effectively used to contain the pandemic.
6. A mass testing and a complete isolation of those tested positive even without symptoms must be implemented to reduce the numbers of daily cases and death.
7. With all positive cases isolated, the State of Emergency and Movement Control Order can be lifted so the economy, businesses and government offices can return to normalcy. Our economy can then recover.
