KUALA LUMPUR: The amendments to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Bill 2021 is needed to fight the next Covid-19 wave in the coming months, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
"If I am forced to withdraw the bill, and of course, for the upcoming two to three months until March, we do not have all the measures that we need to face with whatever it is that is going to come," he told a press conference in parliament on Thursday (Dec 16).
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