Saturday, 17 Apr 2021 06:31 PM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah arrives for his daily press conference on Covid-19 in Putrajaya February 9, 2021. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 Eight new Covid-19 clusters were detected by the Health Ministry today, three of which are located in schools or education institutions.
Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the eight clusters, one is located in Selangor, Pahang, and Johor respectively, while two are located in Sabah and three in Sarawak.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba (
pic) said during the same period, 671,589 individuals received their first dose, bringing the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country to 1,105,890.
In an infographic shared on his official Twitter account Friday (April 16), he said the five states with the most recipients administered with the first dose were Selangor with 93,829, followed by Kuala Lumpur (73,266), Sarawak (67,427), Johor (63,295) and Sabah (55,734).
The five states with the highest number of recipients who had completed both doses so far were Selangor with 61,662 individuals, followed by Perak (48,607), Sabah (42,972), Kuala Lumpur (37,962) and Pahang (33,080).
As for the number who have signed up for the immunisation programme, Dr Adham said as of Thursday, a total of 8,834,823 people or 36.4% of the target had registered with Selangor recording the highest number at 2,333,514.
Just jabbed: Khairy (right) speaking with vaccine recipients at Seremban City Council Hall Vaccine Dispensing Centre. Bernama
SEREMBAN: The National Security Council needs to review its decision to relax Covid-19 mitigation steps, such as allowing Ramadan bazaars to open, following a spike in cases and the emergence of other variants in Malaysia, says Khairy Jamaludin.
Khairy, who is Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, said this was necessary as there was a real possibility of Malaysia being hit by a “fourth wave”.
“As someone responsible for the immunisation programme, I am concerned about the fourth wave and my greatest worry is the variants of the virus.
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