With an uncertain number of fatalities, up to 34,000 displaced from their homes and Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin announcing an increase of Covid-19 cases at flood shelters, many are questioning the federal and state governments' slow response to the situation.
Footage of a parliamentary speech by Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar (above) on July 26 warning the government to prepare for the upcoming monsoon season has gone viral.
During the speech, Nurul Izzah stated that Covid-19 cases were already putting a huge strain on the system and that it would be disastrous if the federal government did not factor the monsoon season into its plans under the National Recovery Council (NRC).
Then prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin now heads the council following his appointment by new premier Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
"In Penang, the state government and related authorities are working together to plan for floods in the coming season.
"We need to have plans put in place to encounter these floods during the pandemic.
"This has to be taken very seriously, including by the Finance Ministry," Nurul Izzah had said.
Despite the PKR lawmaker's warnings, flash floods have taken the peninsula by storm this weekend. In Pahang alone, the number of evacuees seeking shelter at relief centres (PPS) has reached 25,669 people in 239 PPS this morning.
Earlier, Khairy confirmed that 181 positive Covid-19 cases had been detected at PPS nationwide involving 117 cases in Selangor, Pahang (52), Kelantan (six), Kuala Lumpur (four) and one each in Negeri Sembilan and Malacca.
- Mkini
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