PETALING JAYA: Access to a variety of vaccines makes fighting the Covid-19 pandemic that much easier and health experts are hoping that more people in the country can get their immunisation sooner.
Universiti Malaya occupational and public health expert Prof Dr Victor Hoe said having more choices of vaccines was good for the country.
He was responding to news that the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine had met the requirements for emergency use in the United States and will be approved soon.
“As we know there are different variants of the SARS-Cov-2 from different regions of the world, and some vaccines are more efficacious against certain variants. It will be good for the country and globally to have access to various vaccines, ” he said.
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THE initial discovery that Covid-19 would be a global threat was quickly followed by accusations and finger-pointing between the US and China, raising questions about the origins of the virus and fuelling conspiracy theories. The “infodemic”, as coined by the World Health Organisation (WHO), outpaced the pandemic, overshadowing voices from rational scientific efforts.
The initial geo-political handling of sensationalised news worsened pre-existing issues of trust-deficit by the people towards governments and pharmaceutical companies, resulting in an uphill battle against Covid-19 misinformation.
This set the scene for independent expert voices as information frontliners, and according to WHO, help “flatten the infodemic curve”.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 26): The task of ensuring the safety of the Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine which is scheduled to arrive in the country tomorrow, will be undertaken by the Serdang district police headquarters, as its storage centre will be under the administration of the police headquarters.
Serdang police chief ACP Razali Abu Samah said the Sinovac vaccine is expected to arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at about 9am tomorrow and security will be implemented by the Selangor contingent police. Once the convoy of vehicles carrying the vaccine enters Serdang, we will take over until the vaccine reaches the storage centre, he said after attending the First Day At School Programme of the Serdang District Police Headquarters (IPD) here today.
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PETALING JAYA: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) says it will rectify omissions from the list of private healthcare personnel who are supposed to be included in the first phase of Covid-19 vaccinations.
There had been reports saying that more than 1,000 private healthcare employees had been left off the list.
APHM president Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh said it was premature to jump to conclusions as the group did not intentionally exclude any private hospitals from the list. We have rectified the list and updated the Health Ministry. Our association has the list of our members who have responded to us, he said on Thursday (Feb 25).