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KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Malaysias cumulative number of administered Covid-19 vaccine doses topped 17 million as of yesterday (July 25) at 17.32 million after country recorded a daily figure of 399,135 shots, according to the latest updates on Twitter today by the countrys Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF). The country’s total number of administered doses was 16.9 million as of Saturday (July ...

Published on: Monday, July 26, 2021 By: Bernama Text Size: PUTRAJAYA: The guidelines for illegal immigrants and refugees to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots have been approved, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pic).  He said the guidelines have been approved by the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) to enable illegal immigrants and refugees to be present at vaccination centres (PPV) for vaccination and the details on the matter w...

Vaccination guidelines for illegal immigrants, refugees, approved by CITF 25 Jul 2021 / 20:25 H. Bernama PUTRAJAYA: The guidelines for illegal immigrants and refugees to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots have been approved, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. He said the guidelines have been approved by the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) to enable illegal immigrants and refugees to be present at vaccination centres (PPV) for v...

Learn from West and India to deal with Delta variant 26 Jul 2021 / 10:12 H. IT is disconcerting to note that we hit a record high in Covid infections of 17,045 new cases yesterday, with 92 deaths after recording nearly 200 deaths earlier. This is despite the lockdown since June 1. Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has attributed these recent increases partly to the rising dominance of the Delta variant. Notwithstanding that we have limited genomic sequencing capacity, ...

AS unbelievable as this sounds, many of us are now in the unenviable position of wondering if our vaccination wasn’t merely blank shots, which reports have intimated. These are probably isolated incidents, but we certainly have source for concern. There’s a trust deficit in Malaysia, and that’s calling it like it is. It’s fair to say there’s a general wariness with the government, and these acts of negligence have become associated with alleged corruption and incompetence. Never mind ...

Covid-19 vaccination tracker to see where we are in the race to herd immunity. KUALA LUMPUR (July 25) : Malaysia administered 417,738 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday (July 24), down 9.63% from 462,242 shots a day earlier. Of this, 284,672 jabs were given as the first dose, while the remaining 133,066 shots were second jabs, according to the latest updates on Twitter today by the country’s Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Co...

PETALING JAYA: The vaccination rate for Pulau Pangkor is expected to reach 80% by early September, as the idyllic island resort has been selected to be in the Covid-19 Free Destination programme pilot project by the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry. To reach herd immunity, at least 8,026 residents need to be vaccinated out of the total 11,500 population, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday (July 25). As of July 11, a total of 1,002 people had received the first dose of the Covid-19 vac...

(pic). Without specifying the total number of doses to be received, he said surplus vaccines from vaccination centres (PPV) in Langkawi would also be brought to the mainland to speed up the vaccination process. There were among matters decided at the state Security Special Committee meeting, which he chaired on Friday (July 23) to discuss efforts to be taken to address the increase in Covid-19 positive cases in Kedah. Muhammad Sanusi said another mega PPV will be opened in Sungai Petani as soon...

Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 vaccine doses administered fell to 462,242 on July 23 Tan Siew Mung © Provided by The Edge KUALA LUMPUR (July 24): Malaysia administered 462,242 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday (July 23), down 8.84% from 507,050 shots a day earlier. A total of 301,536 individuals received their first dose yesterday, while the remaining 160,706 shots were second jabs, according to the latest updates on Twitter today by the country’s Special Committee for En...

PUTRAJAYA: The recent case where a nurse performed a vaccination using an empty syringe was due to human error resulting from exhaustion, revealed Khairy Jamaluddin, who called on the public not to diminish the “sacrifice” of all frontliners due to such isolated incidents. Khairy said that while the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) view public claims on empty vaccination seriously, he hoped that the public would continue to support the hard work of frontliners. “We need to preserve...