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Friday, 05 Mar 2021 07:00 AM MYT BY YISWAREE PALANSAMY Health minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba speaks to a reporter during an interview session with Malay Mail at the Ministry of Health in Putrajaya, March 4, 2021. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said investigations on alleged queue-cutting for Covid-19 vaccines have yielded no evidence that any su...

PETALING JAYA: More than 80,000 people have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine since the start of the country’s immunisation programme on Feb 24.

IPOH: The Perak MCA public service and complaints bureau will be assisting people, especially senior citizens, to register for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. Its chief Low Guo Nan said many people, especially the elderly, did not have the MySejahtera application due to not having smartphones, and some were not well-versed in using the Internet for online registration. He said people could come to the state MCA headquarters here from 2pm to 5pm, Mondays to Fridays. “We want to h...

Published on: Thursday, March 04, 2021 Text Size: A nurse loads a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine at the UiTM Hospital in Sungai Buloh March 2, 2021. (Photo: Malay Mail) Kuala Lumpur: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has today warned its staff against making public statements, especially on social media platforms, after a staff purportedly criticised Putrajaya’s Covid-19 vaccination plan. In a statement today, the ministry’s chief secretary Datuk Mohd Shafiq Abdullah ...

PETALING JAYA: A total of 80,336 people in the country have received their first Covid-19 vaccine dose as of Wednesday (March 3).

KUALA LUMPUR: The Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV) is urged to review its categorisation of frontliners and li...

Blitzing for Family Medicine The Academy’s fight for family medicine is nothing if not a long game. Sometimes, though, the playbook calls for the old ghost blitz. That was the maneuver last week when the AAFP’s president, Board chair and Board members conducted a high-powered, minutely scheduled day of lobbying pandemic-style — virtually. How’d it go? “Great day, great day,” Academy President Ada Stewart, M.D., of Columbia, S.C., said on the video call that participants shared after...

General practitioners, specialist clinics and dentists are currently listed under category 2.

Monday, 01 Mar 2021 12:12 PM MYT BY RADZI RAZAK Innovation, Science, And Technology Minister Khairy Jamaluddin delivers his speech during the launch of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Handbook at the Perdana Putra Building in Putrajaya February 16, 2021. — Bernama pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 1 — Complaints of several politicians and their aides jumping queue for the Covid-19 vaccine began making the r...

Published on: Friday, February 26, 2021 By: Bernama Hajiji (second right) and other Sabah leaders during the video-conferencing with Khairy. Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Government has made the necessary preparations to ensure the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme succeeds, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor. He said the preparations included setting up the Covid-19 Immunisation Special Task Force under Sabah State Secretary Datuk Safar Untong. “At the district and grassroots level...