KUALA LUMPUR: Private clinics and hospitals should be allowed to provide Covid-19 vaccinations to the general public, says MCA Public Services and Complaints Department chief Datuk Seri Michael Chong.
PETALING JAYA: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia has appealed to the government to rope them in for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
A man receives a shot of COVID-19 vaccine from China s Sinovac in Bangkok, Thailand, Feb 28, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Deliveries of China s CoronaVac vaccine help to build confidence in region s efforts
Countries in Southeast Asia are bolstering their efforts against the coronavirus with shipments of a Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine.
On Sunday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was on hand for the arrival at a Manila airport of a batch of a vaccine from Sinovac Biotech, known as CoronaVac. A day earlier, Malaysian officials welcomed a shipment of the same vaccine in Malaysia.
And in Thailand, where supplies of CoronaVac landed in Bangkok on Wednesday, vaccinations began on Sunday. That development prompted the Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to call it a historic day.
IPOH: There are no issues of state “VIPs” jumping the queue to get their Covid-19 vaccinations during the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation programme in Perak.