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KOTA KINABALU, Aug 29 — President of the Federation of Chinese Associations Sabah (FCAS), Tan Sri TC Goh, has urged Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin to quickly intervene to ramp up vaccine supply for Sabah. He said this is crucial in order to prevent the incident of postponement of second dose...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 — A total of 14,487,972 individuals or 61.9 per cent of the adult population in Malaysia have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of yesterday, according to the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV). JKJAV, in a Twitter post today, said...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) have been...

KPJ Healthcare Bhd is ramping up its decanting of non-Covid-19 patients from government hospitals to ease capacity as Covid-19 daily infections continue to soar.The company said it has seen an intake of more than 1,000 patients per month from government hospitals over the last few months, with services and procedures provided to the Health Ministry based on a cost recovery formula to ensure affordability.It also clocks in at almost 15,000 vaccinations daily which makes it the largest private hea...

PHARMANIAGA Bhd is on track to supply a total of seven million doses of Sinovac vaccine to state governments, government-linked companies (GLCs), and the private sector.Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said of the total, four million doses have been requested from GLCs and private companies, while three million doses are for state governments that are recording high numbers of Covid-19 cases.

A PILOT programme featuring Covid-19 vaccination mobile trucks will be rolled out in densely populated areas and construction sites in Kuala Lumpur (KL) to curb the spread of the virus which breached the 9,000 daily mark last week.National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NCIP) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (picture) said the programme will commence in about a week’s time.“If successful, we will expand it to other states,” he said at the weekly Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force ...

With schools set to reopen in stages from Oct 3, 190,212, Form Five students in Phase Two and Three states of the National Recovery Plan are set to return for face-to-face learning with vaccinations for those below 18 slated to start mid-September.

KUALA LUMPUR: Some 42.4% of the country’s population or 13,842,928 indivi­duals have completed both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as at Wednesday, according to the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee.

Ministry says vaccines only prevent severe disease or avert death.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — Both Umno and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) were given the lion's share in the newly formed Cabinet line-up announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob this morning. Under the new Cabinet line-up and the political parties ministers are affiliated...