01 Jun 2021 / 11:41 H.
PETALING JAYA: There has been no engagement between National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin and the private GPs on the involvement of private GPs in the National Immunisation Programme’s Phase 2 and 3, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) said today.
MMA had officially written to the minister on March 2 to meet on plans for the private GPs to be involved in the NIP but there had been no reply from Khairy’s office, according to it president Datuk Dr. Subramaniam Muniandy
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“No official communication from the JKJAV (Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply)even up until now,” he said in a statement.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah should be allowed to buy Covid-19 vaccines as it was necessary to ramp up its vaccination drive, says Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin.
Malaysia plans to roll out more ways to get vaccinated, including the use of vaccine mobile trucks known as MyMedic, and drive-through vaccination services.
31 May 2021 / 17:14 H.
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysians should be very concerned now as a total of 82,341 cases of Covid-19 infection in the country involve infants and children.
The grim figure was disclosed by Health Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba (
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“No one is in the ICU (intensive care unit),” he said in a joint press conference on the development of the country’s immunisation exercise, with the Coordinating Minister of the Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme, Khairy Jamaluddin, today.