PETALING JAYA: Starting June, the country’s supply of Covid-19 vaccines will begin to outstrip the number of registrations, says Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
Where s my vaccine? - KJ addresses concerns about slow vaccination
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Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who is also in charge of the country s vaccination efforts against Covid-19, acknowledged that people have been asking why they have yet to receive their vaccination appointment.
This is as phase two of the vaccination exercise involving those aged 60 and older as well as people with chronic illnesses is fast approaching next week.
Khairy said he recognised that people are anxious.
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FRIENDS and relatives from around the world have just one question for me when we have a friendly chat: If I have been vaccinated and if not, when? My reply has always been indefinite and this is exactly how it is here.
“When” appears to be a million-dollar question. The wait seems perpetual and a check on my vaccination status from a link drew the response that it is being processed.
As we know, the Covid vaccination is the biggest vaccination campaign in history and to date, more than 726 million doses have been administered across 154 countries, according to Bloomberg data. That works out to roughly 17 million doses a day.
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Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin. (File photo: Bernama)
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has assured the public that the country will have enough COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate 80 per cent of the population by October.
In a tweet posted on Tuesday (Apr 13), Mr Khairy shared a graph by the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) that compares the projection of vaccine delivery to the number of registrations for the vaccine to date.
KUCHING, April 13 Sarawakians need not worry that they will be deprived of the Covid-19 vaccines, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Douglas Uggah said today. He said the federal government has given its assurance that it will provide Sarawak with its 2.2 million population, sufficient doses that will.