COMMENT | Recently, I wrote about how to avoid a Covid-19 disaster in Malaysia. This crisis has washed over us and the toll in deaths and loss of livelihood has been and continues to be significant.

I am now writing about the impending, massive fifth wave. This wave may be so big as to make the current one look pale in contrast. In a sense, we have, in the fourth wave, experienced what Italy did last year. Now the fear is that we may experience what India, Peru and some other countries in South America are experiencing.

Some of our leaders seem to live in denial of the reality; one even saying that the pandemic in Malaysia is under control. Others have set a value of '4000 cases' as a benchmark to use, but in the face of high positivity and limited testing, this is fraught with problems. A good look at the data and trends suggest that the worst may be yet to come.

When will a fifth wave potentially hit us? The graph below shows the ...