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Published on: Monday, May 03, 2021
By: Bernama
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Khairy Jamaluddin inspects a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Shah Alam on March 25, 2021. (File photo: Bernama)
PUTRAJAYA: The allegations that the vaccination rate in the country is slow and low are not true as the vaccination jabs are done according to the supply delivery schedule, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
He said that the country had, so far, received a total of 1,938,660 doses of the Pfizer, Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines, of which 1,453,382 doses had been inoculated.
“So, this shows that the utilisation rate of vaccines received in the country is 75%.if it’s only 10%, then yes it’s slow. As such, this is not about the low vaccination rate and it’s not like we do not want to swiftly vaccinate the public, the issue is that the supply is sent according to schedule,” he said at a joint media conference with Health Minister Datuk Se