MP SPEAKS | How will govt speed up NIP to achieve herd immunity?
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MP SPEAKS | One of our biggest challenges in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic is how to accelerate the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) and shorten its 22-month programme to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 to seven or even four months.
For the past few days, both Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and the Minister co-ordinating the NIP, Khairy Jamaluddin, have been avoiding my question as to what is the latest timeline for Malaysia to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 under the NIP.
I had referred to an international media report last week which said that based on the present vaccination rate, the estimated time needed to achieve herd immunity with 75 percent of the population vaccinated would be 22 months for Malaysia.