Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin should explain why the country's Covid-19 deaths are worsening, said Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang.

This was as the country recorded another 487 Covid-19 deaths reported today pushed September's death toll to 7,910, making this month the deadliest since the start of the pandemic.

Lim pointed out that in the past week, Malaysia was one of the worst-performing countries in terms of deaths per million population.