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‘Vaccinate 1.9mil labour force first’ call
Published on: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Published on: Wed, May 12, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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‘Vaccinate 1.9mil labour force first’ call
State Govt urged to use RM2.5b reserves, RM200m surplus to do so.
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah should invest its RM2.5 billion reserves and RM200 million budget surplus to vaccinate it’s 1.9 million labour force first which takes only a matter of two months to ease and lift itself out of the Covid-19 crisis, said UMS Senior Lecturer in Economics, Dr James Alin at the Seeds Special Forum themed ‘Beyond The 2020 Sabah Polls: Managing Uncertainty & Finding Economic Security,’ held last Monday.

“Now the new Government is six months old, we are now in a deep crisis – Covid crisis, so what should the State Government do,” he asked.

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