PETALING JAYA: Those planning to use their influence or position to “potong queue” (cut the queue) and get access to the Covid-19 vaccination before their turn better think again.
Malaysia kicked off its National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme on Feb 24 but claims of queue-jumping have emerged on social media and this has caused a public outcry.
They include allegations that several aides to politicians and senior government officials had got their vaccine despite not qualifying for the first phase of the national programme.
The government said it has since taken strict measures to investigate all such claims and to make sure that no one is able to slip through and cut the vaccination queue.
PETALING JAYA: Guidelines have been released on who will be considered as a ‘frontliner’ in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
The Special Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Committee also affirmed that the vaccines will be prioritised for frontliners and that no queue-cutting in the vaccination programme would take place for those who are not considered frontliners.
The guidelines were drawn up by the special committee in a meeting, which was chaired by Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba and Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
The guidelines can be found on the Health Ministry’s Twitter account on Monday (March 1).
After one year of fighting Covid-19, we are familiar with terms such as “whole-of-society”, “community empowerment” and “#KitaJagaKita”. These terms are not just feel-good buzzwords or politically convenient rhetoric, but they are founded on solid public health principles of pandemic management and in the overall democratic governance of a country.
We believe that Malaysia can do much better in community participation in the next few years of Covid-19. Therefore, we propose a framework for how communities can meaningfully participate in the pandemic response and apply that framework to the recently announced National Covid-19 Immunization Plan.
Appoint more community leaders
We propose our framework in three parts. First, relevant and adequate numbers of community leaders must be appointed to appropriate cabinet or ministry-level committees or task forces, such as the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Committee. Right now, these committees or task forces are mos
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Malaysia has received its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines today (21 Feb) as flight MH606 carrying Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine landed in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 10.00am.
The vaccines (bearing 312,390 doses) were flown in from Puurs, Belgium after transiting at Leipzig Halle Airport, Germany and Changi Airport, Singapore.
Along with the arrival of the vaccines, Science, Technology & Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin announced the good news that the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme will begin earlier on 24 February 2020 (Wednesday) instead of 26 February as previously decided.
The first recipients of the vaccine will be Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
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