Dr Adham Baba: M'sians Should Correct Me If They Want The Govt To Make This Country Better

The minister made the comment on his Instagram in regards to his latest blunder, claiming that he had a World Health Organization (WHO) video conference call with "500 countries".

"Please answer, Datuk. I want to ask how many countries are there in the world? 'Cause I feel like Google is giving me the wrong answer," wrote a netizen in a comments section of Dr Adham's Instagram post.

The comment was written by the netizen at about 1pm yesterday, 19 April.

A quick Google search will say there are only 195 countries in the world.

"Google is not wrong. Yes, I have incorrectly mentioned 500 countries, it was supposed to be 500 reprentatives from various countries," Dr Adham said.

"If I am wrong, you should help me to correct it if you want to see the current government lead this country to become better."

Very quickly, screenshots of Dr Adham's comment went viral.

Some netizens praised the Health Minister's courage to publicly admit his blunder.

"You are the best Datuk for readily accepting and correcting the mistake," commented a Malaysian, while another added, "It takes a real man to admit his mistakes."

One netizen said, "You are lucky to have Datuk answer your question. Good job on asking that question. To Dr Adham, may Allah bless all of us.

"We know you all are working in a team to handle COVID-19. May Datuk and the team in the Ministry of Health have enough rest while for us to break this (infectious) chain."

However, the effort was quickly debunked by other Malaysians as the original photo was first posted on the Ministry of Health's Facebook page on 27 March.

The original photo shows that there are only 338 participants in the conference call instead of 538.