Haziq was a Malaysia's recurve men's team archer and two-time Olympian who had competed the archery event in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

[5] Haziq and national diving athlete Pandelela Rinong was respectively named the Bukit Jalil Sports School Sportsman and Sportswoman for 2012.

[8] As the post-mortem was being carry out at the hospital, social media has been abuzz with many speculations connecting his death cause to the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccination programme which Haziq had just completed, with the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on 4 May meant for athletes and officials in preparations for the forth coming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

[9] The National Sports Council (NSC) instead had said that Haziq's body was tested negative for COVID-19[10] His body was taken to his wife's hometown in Merlimau, Melaka for prayers at Surau Al-Taqwa before burial at the Taman Koperasi Serkam Darat Cemetery, at 1.40 am in accordance with COVID-19 standard operating procedure (SOP) of the on-going Movement Control Order (MCO).

[11] The Ministry of Health (MOH), had finally issued a statement later after his burial, explaining that Haziq's death was not related to COVID-19 infection nor its vaccination and was due to complications arising from clogged heart blood vessels due to coronary artery atherosclerosis as shown by the post-mortem result.