Following Monday’s nationwide protest at around 20 hospitals as part of the Hartal Doktor Kontrak (HDK) campaign, doctors, nurses and other medical staff at the Covid-19 quarantine centre at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (Maeps) were questioned by police late last night, said lawyer Asheeq Ali who represents the group.

This is an unexpected development as unlike staff in other major hospitals, those planning to strike at Maeps chose not to participate following threats of arrest prior to the planned demonstration, which was to have taken place at 11am on June 26.

Asheeq first tweeted that...