PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will receive 25.6 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the third quarter of this year, said Coordinating Minister for t.
Due to the good response of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the next batch of it will no longer be available on a voluntary opt-in basis. At a virtual media briefing today, the Coordinating Minister of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin said the great response showed that there was no longer any hesitancy among the community for the vaccine.
Tuesday, 25 May 2021 01:29 PM MYT
BY ASHMAN ADAM
Khairy Jamaluddin said that slots for the vaccine would be available for booking at 12pm. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 The Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) today announced that opt-in registration for the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for those under 60 will begin tomorrow (May 26).
In a press conference, Coordinating Minister of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin said that slots for the vaccine would be available for booking at 12pm.
He however stressed that the elderly will still be prioritised when assigning slots for the vaccine.
YOURSAY | Govt must come clean on reports of underdosing
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If there is evidence of underdosing, then where did the excess vaccine go?
Frank: We should not be satisfied with easy answers to why this kind of thing is happening.
This is quite a serious matter (of life or death!) where the difficult or undesirable answers (your guesses are as good as mine!) could probably be true in just about every single case since in this land of ours, in one incomprehensible (at the beginning…) scandal or something of that sort (1MDB and related cases should be quite a good example!) has later turned out to be all true.
PETALING JAYA: As registrations for the AstraZeneca vaccine for those aged 60 and above opened up at noon Sunday (May 23), social media was flooded with questions from users as they faced technical problems in signing up their elderly parents or family members.