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PETALING JAYA: Access to a variety of vaccines makes fighting the Covid-19 pandemic that much easier and health experts are hoping that more people in the country can get their immunisation sooner.
Universiti Malaya occupational and public health expert Prof Dr Victor Hoe said having more choices of vaccines was good for the country.
He was responding to news that the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine had met the requirements for emergency use in the United States and will be approved soon.
“As we know there are different variants of the SARS-Cov-2 from different regions of the world, and some vaccines are more efficacious against certain variants. It will be good for the country and globally to have access to various vaccines, ” he said.
PETALING JAYA: Private healthcare workers from Kuala Lumpur will be vaccinated at two private hospitals in the state on March 1.
Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) president Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh said the two hospitals are Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur and KPJ Tawakal KL. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be provided by the Wilayah Persekutuan Health Department and the vaccinators would be selected from the staff of the two private hospitals. All frontline private healthcare workers inclusive of specialists, medical officers, nurses and medical care aides will be vaccinated over the next three weeks at these two hospitals, he said in a statement on Friday (Feb 26).
PETALING JAYA: The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) says it will rectify omissions from the list of private healthcare personnel who are supposed to be included in the first phase of Covid-19 vaccinations.
There had been reports saying that more than 1,000 private healthcare employees had been left off the list.
APHM president Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh said it was premature to jump to conclusions as the group did not intentionally exclude any private hospitals from the list. We have rectified the list and updated the Health Ministry. Our association has the list of our members who have responded to us, he said on Thursday (Feb 25).
PETALING JAYA: Health experts have expressed support for the government’s plans to issue a “Covid-19 vaccine passport” for those who have been inoculated, but want no discrimination in the exercise.