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Home visit: Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz (left) looking on as a patient is given a vaccine at his home in Taman Lembah Jaya in Ampang. — Bernama KUALA LUMPUR: House-to-house vaccination for bedridden patients living in the Klang Valley will be carried out by the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) with other non-governmental organisations under the mobile clinic initiative of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. Its adviser Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood said MRCS had mobilised its team ...

SEPANG: The industrial vaccination programme will be expanded to cover more sectors, including plantation and retail, says Khairy Jamaluddin. To date the coordinating minister of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme said 27 industry PPV (vaccination centres) have been set up nationwide. “For now, the ministries involved in the Covid-19 vaccination programme for the economic sector are the International Trade and Industry Ministry, Works Ministry, and Transport Ministry. “The CITF (C...

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PETALING JAYA: Some 33% of those under the Skim Peduli Kesihatan B40 (PeKa B40) have been found to have at least one non-communicable disease (NCD) unknown to them, says the Health Minister. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said they only found out about their condition when they went for health screenings under the scheme. He said the PeKa B40 2019-20 Report showed that of the 457,462 scheme recipients, 151,729 had NCDs such as diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension and even mental i...

By Dr VENOO KUPPUSAMY and Dr KHOR SWEE KHENG WE have always known that the rakyat has a crucial role to play in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK). In this column, we explain why the rakyat’s role will soon be more crucial than ever and why our fate is now closely tied to the PICK. The main reason is that the four-phase National Recovery Plan (NRP) has vaccination rates as one of three key indicators (combined with daily case numbers and intensive care bed utilisation) for tr...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. A photo of a Malaysian newspaper article has been shared widely on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that a Malaysian minister said Muslims and non-Muslims would be given different brands of Covid-19 vaccines. The claim is misleading: the Malaysian newspaper issued a correction after it published an erroneous paragraph about Malaysias Covid-19 vaccine rollout. The Malaysian minister has denied claims that Muslims and non-Muslims have been offer...

Tuesday, 06 Jul 2021 06:08 PM MYT Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the third focus of Pemulih is to speed up vaccination for as many people as possible to ensure Malaysia can achieve herd immunity and enable the people to return to the kind of lives they were enjoying before the Covid-19 pandemic struck early last year. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin...

Published on: Wednesday, July 07, 2021 By: Bernama Kuala Lumpur: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah (pic) expressed his appreciation to the United States (US) for donating one million doses of Pfizer vaccine to help boost the vaccination process under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK). Comptroller of the Royal Household of Istana Negara, Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, through Istana Negara’s official Facebook account Tuesday, said ...

PETALING JAYA: With speculation that the Umno supreme council will meet today, the main question being asked is whether party leaders will push for Umno to exit the Perikatan Nasional government despite the earlier failed attempts. Sources said there was a possibility that the planned supreme council meeting might be called off after last night’s meeting between Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and representatives of the party’s MPs who insisted on remaining with the governme...

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will give priority to vaccinating children with underlying health conditions first, amid rare reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) side-effect occurring in children who had received the Pfizer vaccine. Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said adolescents who are healthier would receive their turn after Phase Three of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme is completed. “Adolescents, who are at a higher risk of severe Covid-19 due to chronic underlying medical cond...