KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia s first shipment of coronavirus vaccines touched down at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on Sunday (Feb 21) morning, with another consignment making its way over land from Singapore to Johor the same afternoon.
The total of 312,390 doses made several stops since leaving the Pfizer plant in Belgium, including Leipzig, Germany and Singapore, which is the Asia-Pacific distribution hub for the much-awaited Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Some 16 secret locations nationwide will hold the vaccines, including four in Johor that are receiving the doses via ground shipments from Singapore. Nearly a quarter of this batch, or 73,710 doses, travelled across the Causeway.
SEPANG: Registration for the Covid-19 vaccination, to commence on March 1, will remain open until it reaches the target of 80 per cent of the populati.
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KUALA LUMPUR: After more than a year of ‘fighting’ the Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed more than 1,000 lives in Malaysia, the much-awaited vaccine is scheduled to arrive in the country today.
This historic moment is expected to happen at about 10am with the arrival of the first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (
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The arrival of the passenger-to-cargo (P2C) flight, carrying 312,390 doses of the vaccine, will be welcomed by Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba, Science, Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin, who is also Technology and Innovation Minister, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong and Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): Malaysia has now joined the global community in a more intense fight against the coronavirus with the first arrival today of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that will set into motion the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
This first batch of 312,390 doses of the long-awaited vaccine arrived in Malaysia from Singapore, the hub for distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to Asia-Pacific countries, by air and overland.
A special Malaysia Airlines flight, MH604, in the Jalur Gemilang (national flag) livery, flew in two unit load devices (ULD) of the vaccine at 10.07am to the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, about 50km from the city centre.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): The arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Malaysia today marks a new dawn in the country's fight against Covid-19, as it offers hope that the people will again join forces in a bid to end the pandemic. Describing the arrival of the vaccine at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) as a historic occasion, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said it was symbolic of all the blood, sweat, tears and sacrifices in facing the pandemic all this while.