Indonesians Outraged At MOH & DG Over Covid-19 Imported Cases Misunderstanding
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A slight misunderstanding is causing a rift between Malaysians and Indonesians in cyberspace.
Indonesians are apparently outraged over statements supposedly made by Malaysia’s Health Director-General Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah on the status of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
Recently, the DG had announced that more than 70% of identified Covid-19 infections in Malaysia had been the result of imported cases, where some 90 Malaysian individuals returning home from Indonesia were confirmed positive for the virus.
It would seem that the message got a bit lost in translation when one alternative media channel wrongly assumed that Malaysia was trying to dis its southern neighbor.
The Garuda Revolution Instagram page issued a call to action to its Indonesian followers and confronted Malaysia for essentially having insulted the country and its citizens.
In a posting donned with the image Dr. Noor Hisham, the page apparently called out Malaysia’s hubris for making such statements after previously being the country worst-hit by the pandemic in the Southeast Asian region.
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And it would seem that a number of Indonesians brought into the fake news as comments online started filling up with, let’s just say, indelicate messages aimed towards Malaysia.
Even Malaysia’s Health Ministry’s (MOH) social media channels were not safe from being the point of assault as a number of spam messages were floating in its comment sections.
Meanwhile, Malaysians along with Indonesians who correctly understood the statement were also flooding social media in efforts to explain the misinterpretation and address the miscommunication between the two nations.
Here’s to hoping that we’ve managed to get the message across and all misunderstandings have been resolved.
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