COMMENT | Breaking down contentious issues in the right perspective

COMMENT | It is the usual practice of most journalists including this writer to correct themselves if they had reported erroneously, quoted someone incorrectly or got their facts wrong.

I am now caught in that situation because this morning, in a commentary titled “Two wrongs don’t make a right”, among others, I questioned if the speaker, Azhar Azizan Harun, had the power to vary a quarantine order issued under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures Within Infected Local Areas (No 2) Regulations 2020 (the “MCO Regulations”).

This was because three MPs under quarantine who donned personal protection equipment (PPE) were allowed to be present and vote in...