ADUN SPEAKS | Khairy, where is the vaccination plan?
Modified18 Jan 2021, 6:23 am
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Singapore started vaccinating its citizens on Dec 30, 2020 and President Jodo Widodo kicked off Indonesia’s mass vaccination drive on Jan 13, 2021 with a plan to vaccinate 181.5 million of its people by March next year.
Malaysians instead are left wondering when it will be their turn to be vaccinated. We are still waiting for the government to unveil the country’s vaccination plan.
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin in December said that the government’s Covid-19 Vaccine Supplies Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) which he co-chairs, will table the country’s national vaccination programme to the cabinet in early January 2021.
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Young and healthy Malaysians would only receive the Covid-19 vaccine by July 2021 because frontliners and senior citizens are first in line to be inoculated.
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister and Co-Chairman of the Covid-19 Vaccine Supplies Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) Khairy Jamaluddin wrote in a statement that the primary goal of the national vaccination program would be to protect high-risk individuals like frontline healthcare and security workers before moving on to the elderly and people with chronic illness.
He explained that healthy adults under the age of 60 can expect to be vaccinated, at the earliest, by the third quarter of the year in order for the country to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19.
KUALA LUMPUR: Although other developed countries as well as neighbouring countries have begun receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, Malaysia is on track to .
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PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia had opted for the Covid-19 vaccine produced by United Kingdom (UK) pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca through negotiations under the COVAX facility that will ensure supply for another 10 per cent of the country’s population.
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said this will see supply from AstraZeneca increase to 20 per cent after an earlier procurement of 10 per cent through direct negotiation with the company.
“AstraZeneca’s delivery of the vaccine through COVAX is being finalised but we have been told it is between March and June next year.
“Through the direct negotiation, meanwhile, (Malaysia) will receive the first shipment in April or May 2021,” he told a media conference on the development to procure Covid-19 vaccines here, today.