Dzulkefly: This is not a lockdown, this is 'flattening the epidemic curve'

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Dzulkefly: This is not a lockdown, this is 'flattening the epidemic curve'
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CORONAVIRUS | Former health minister says gov't measures to combat Covid-19 best expression of social distancing.

CORONAVIRUS | The restrictions announced by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to combat Covid-19 is not a lockdown, but a form of social distancing that can "flatten the epidemic curve", said former health minister Dzulkefly Ahmad

"This is nothing like a lockdown at all. A lockdown is when you can't leave your home, there's a total curfew, you can't go out to buy food," Dzulkefly (

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