Health experts have implored the government to allocate more people to assist the Health Ministry with contact tracing.

Unless this is expedited, they say the Covid-19 pandemic will only worsen.

Yesterday, Malaysiakini reported that the ministry misses out on more than 6,000 close contacts on average per day in Selangor alone due to a lack of resources.

Even for close contacts it manages to trace, it only tests a portion of them - those with symptoms. Regardless of whether they are tested, all close contacts...