Sabah govt to blame for Covid-19 surge, says ex-state health minister

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A walk-in Covid-19 vaccination centre packed with people at Sandakan, Sabah. (Facebook pic)KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah health minister Frankie Poon has taken the state government to task for the soaring number of Covid-19 cases during the past month, which have also caused record high deaths.While non-adherence to SOPs by the community has contributed to the surge, he said the state authorities are mainly to blame, through the policies they implemented or lack of it.First, he said, the state government and health authorities were using backlog test samples as an excuse to justify the high number of cases.“Sabah Covid-19 spokesman Masidi Manjun admitted recently that the increase in the Covid-19 statistics was due to the backlog. “When this happens, the public will not trust or believe in the figures given by the government. They will get confused and will choose to ignore the n…