As indicated by luca and not only for Melaka, you have plenty of connections (by buses) to the airport (KLIA - KLIA2) from a great number of cities. It's easy to use them and you can easily bypass KL (if it's your aim) on the way back to the airport.

Michel

Well, I sure hope that's true. But if Italy is any indication, number don't peak--they plateau. And it seems a pretty broad, expansive plateau so far.

The total number of cases (or deaths) is the area under the curve (Calculus 101) so if deaths per day or new cases per day do indeed plateau for a sustained period, then in the long run(a number of months) the total number of cases/deaths might be fairly similar regardless of what mitigation strategies were/are used, from strict lock-down through to something pretty liberal and Swedish.

What one hopes is that the plateau number of cases requiring hospital care (accumulating each day) are matched by outcome numbers (recovery and discharge, plus deaths).

You do need the mitigation strategies to be just stringent enough to protect the old and vulnerable, plus prevent the overwhelming of hospitals. That is a pretty hard trick to pull off - and probably best understood only in retrospect. Plus the politics could be nasty - go too hard and the people get sick of it and the economy crashes, but go too soft and the government is blamed for thousands of avoidable deaths (à la Trump).

The risk of going too hard are much less (despite debt and unemployment) than the risk of going soft and killing people in droves. So the politicians are outdoing each other so as to be seen as "hard-on-corona". How are the sock puppets CFC?

I don't think its crazy, you'll just want to work around the heat in some areas

Why should the heat be a problem? During day you are driving. And you'll have AC in your car. In the morning and evening temperatures are comfortable.

Its a problem to the extent that you have to work around it if you want to be active outdoors - not every day naturally works out to have activities planned in the morning and driving during the day. The number of people who have miserable and/or dangerous outdoor experiences in the desert attest to the fact that, at the very least, its a factor to consider while planning.

Moab can be pretty hot - no?

Moab and the immediate surrounds can indeed be stinkin' hot in summer. You wouldn't want to be doing long hikes out on the slickrock during the middle of the day. The upside of Moab in summer - its a great time for river-based activities, and Moab has a great big river right in the middle of it. But other things you'd want to choose carefully - get out in the early morning, when you'll beat both the crowds and the heat. Afternoons are for swimming in the river, or less strenuous activities at higher elevations (like around Dead Horse State Park or Canyonlands Island in the Sky). There are also a good number of canyon hikes that have water and shade, even some swimming holes, also a good choice in the afternoon.

In general, summer is a double-edged sword in the canyon country. Pre-monsoon summer is the ideal time for slot canyon hiking, but can be oppressively hot and dry out on the slickrocks.

Grand Canyon rims are fine summer - the crowds are much more of a problem than the climate. Hiking very far below the rim gets unpleasant pretty fast though. Like others have mentioned, you might consider the North Rim. Its higher and cooler and less hustle-bustle, although lodging is tight unless you plan on camping. There are also many better options for hiking through forest to secluded rim viewpoints, a much more agreeable activity in summer than the inner canyon.

Yes I agree but I sense there is an element in Italy of justifying the high mortality figures on old age rather than lack of facilities and available care.
It's awful to hear "he died BUT he was old...."

I bet in every single one of those cases the correct phrase would be "he died BUT he had this or that underlying chronic condition and the virus finished him off"

For example, my grandfather also officially died of goodness knows what (some gastro intestinal infection), but the reality is, he had parkinson's for 20 years before kicking the bucket.

Numbers being reported out of China are almost certainly false, and there's been increasing evidence of this. A number of reports recently - including from Hong Kong's public broadcaster, which is not know for being radically anti-communist - have suggested that infected numbers in Hubei are being deliberately underreported. Also read something today which seems to indicate that the Hubei government will no longer provide free Coronavirus treatment to residents, but will instead start charging them exorbitant prices for quarantine and treatment if they think they might have the disease. A sure way to reduce the numbers of those being tested!

The Chinese government has carefully constructed a narrative around the outbreak: "The local officals in Wuhan did bad, covering up the outbreak, but then Xi Jinping and the central government stepped in and saved everyone. Everything's good now, go back to work!" If another outbreak occurs, as quarantine measures ease, it will almost certainly be covered up (again), and if it breaks out to the extent where it can't be covered up, it will be blamed on foreign countries.

If you are fit then I suggest "Valley of flower trek - 5 days". The time you are visiting is just perfect for that. You can arrive in Delhi, take an overnight train to Dehradun and spend your first day around the city. The second day you can visit Kanatal and relax, The Third day reach Sankri village, you can do a small hike up to the Devariyatal and camp there for the night. The 4t day you can visit Chopta Tunganath and Chnadrashila. This would make you ready for the actual trek and you will get acclimatized. 5t day reach Joshimath and prepare for your trek, you can also enjoy Auli. 6t day to 9t will be your trek. The 10th day you can visit India's last village Mana and come back to Rishikesh on day 11th to relax.12t day reach back to Delhi and complete your trip.

If you are not interested in trekking you can alter this plan to include Rishikesh on the 5t and 6t day, reach Nainital on seventh and enjoy the Sattal and surroundings, some of the best homestays in India are located in this area and you can enjoy the stay here. My personal recommendation is to spend at least one day at Bhuvans cottage at Geolikot. after spending three days here you can start your journey backward and reach Jim Corbett it will be the 10t day of your trip and September thus rain will also be the less and perfect time to enjoy the national park. The 11th day you can return to Dehradun and take a flight back to Delhi. if you plan your flights well you can even spend one more day at the national park and return to Dehradun on the 12th day itself. This concludes the amazing trip :) Hope you enjoy.

If you search on rotorua geothermal parks discount tickets there seems to be quite a number of useful leads, including bookme.co.nz, and some passes. II don't know of any last-minute specials, but they might exist.

I think we liked Orakei-Korako the most. You haven't included Whakarewarewa. Also the hot-pools at the Polynesian Spa in town are really nice at the end of each day.

You're aiming to do a lot in just two full days - perhaps visit Te Puia on the day of arrival. If you're heading south from Rotorua (towards Taupo) after your three nights, Huka Falls are impressive.

A US licence will be sufficient to rent a vehicle (and a credit card - MasterCard or Visa to be safe).

If you're arriving long-haul into AKL, you're generally advised to have a night there for acclimatisation, before driving off - the city is very busy, rural roads are often winding, you drive on the left side, and NZ drivers are not among the world's best (and I'm being nice).

Bring a GPS with you (with NZ maps) - those units are expensive to rent with the car.

So, after 3 weeks, tens and tens of tries with different cards and on different browsers and with the supposedly helpful customer support or IRCTC, I finally made it. However, don't be fooled, the ATOM gateaway is currently NOT functioning despite the assurance of the support team that their site is working perfectly and that I am not trying enough times.
I tried Cleartrip. They require you to provide an Indian bank account.
I tried on 12asia. Waaay to expensive. Double prices!
I then remembered that I used ixigo for booking tickets to the Andamans as they had the best prices. I checked and they do book train tickets. It takes 2 minutes, they don't ask you a hundred questions, you get a confirmation email by the IRCTC as well and you pay about 40 INR for using the gateaway which is a symbolic price.
So I am happy to say I managed to book all the tickets I needed in 10 minutes.