RSIS Webinar on “Malaysia’s Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Drivers, Players, Consequences”
31 August 2021
Malaysia is widely acknowledged to have managed well the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020, befitting a resource-rich upper middle-income country with one of the best healthcare systems in Southeast Asia and a strong centralised state. However, the pandemic has since evolved into a more complex public health, economic, social and political challenge for Malaysia.