YOURSAY | Vaccination should be for all, including every foreign worker
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Manjit Bhatia: I ll believe this hype when and if it happens. It might just turn out to be another bit of Perikatan Nasional (PN) hubris.
Incidentally, it is not the “government” that is “bearing the huge cost of containing the pandemic among the migrant worker population, including quarantine and treatment”.
Remember basic economics - governments do not have money, per se. Governments raise money through mostly taxes (in Malaysia s case, including corruption).
It is as usual taxpayers who are bearing the cost of Covid-19 wherever and whoever it infects. And there are fewer than 15 million taxpayers in Malaysia.
PUTRAJAYA: Political leaders from both sides of the divide will be among the first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the immunisation programme's first phase, says said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
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He said the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines will be flown in a MASKargo flight and will arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb 21.
“There, it will be sorted and sent to various vaccine storage sites around the country, ” Khairy wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that the first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the country on Feb 21.
“The rollout of the programme will begin on Feb 26, ” he said during the launch of the guidebook for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Plan on Tuesday (Feb 16).
Muhyiddin said he would be the first person in the country to receive the vaccine to boost public confidence over its safety.
PUTRAJAYA: The government is setting up a scheme to handle any serious adverse effects arising from the Covid-19 vaccination programme, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.