KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 25): The Health Ministry (MoH) is targetting the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the country to be completed by the end of this year or early next year.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the vaccination programme would involve three phases, with the first phase expected to start in March involving half a million vaccines for frontline workers.
“We hope to receive the first vaccine at the end of next month. We expect the (first phase) of vaccinations to be from March to May, with the second dose being administered 21 days after receiving the first dose.
SEPANG (Jan 25): Almost 90% of employers in the glove manufacturing industry comply with occupational safety and health laws and regulations, as well as the stipulated standard operating procedures (SOPs) to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Deputy Human Resources Minister Awang Hashim said based on operations conducted at glove manufacturing factories, dubbed “Ops Glove”, carried out since Jan 18, only six of the 105 companies inspected nationwide had an unsatisfactory compliance level.
He said the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) had issued 16 notices to the employers concerned to make the necessary improvements. We will monitor companies that do not comply with occupational safety and health laws, he told reporters after visiting the WRP Asia Pacific glove manufacturing plant here today.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah expressed his hope that the number of new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia will stabilise in two weeks, adding that the Health Ministry is targeting the country to record double-digit cases in May.
Monday, 25 Jan 2021 07:44 PM MYT
BY EMMANUEL SANTA MARIA CHIN
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya on January 19, 2021. Picture by Miera Zulyana
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah expressed hope today for Malaysia’s Covid-19 situation to stabilise in two weeks’ time with the movement control order (MCO) in place now.
He said preventing wild fluctuations was necessary for the MCO to be effective and lifted eventually.
Dr Noor Hisham said that based on the Health Ministry’s projection models, the extension of the MCO to February 4 should allow the country to return to the conditional MCO.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The decision to implement the movement control order for a second time while providing certain flexibility, especially for the economic sector, has not been easy, but had to be made in order to strike a balance between the people’s health and the economy, says Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.