COMMENT | Getting Covid-19 outdoors or assaulted at home?

COMMENT | According to the Statistics Department, the number of marriages decreased by 1.2 percent in 2019, while the divorce rate increased by 12 percent. The main reason for divorces were communication and financial problems, domestic violence and others.

The number of marriages fell from 206,352 in 2018 to 203,821 in 2019, a decline by 1.2 percent. Meanwhile, the number of divorces rose by 12 percent from 50,862 in 2018 to 56,975 in 2019.

The issue of domestic violence has attracted plenty of attention. When the coronavirus pandemic struck Malaysia, our country has been placed under the movement control order (MCO) since March 2020.

However, the new normal of working from home (WFH) may have curbed the infectious disease in the earlier stage, but unfortunately could not contain domestic violence totally...