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KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 The Human Resources Ministry agrees that employers grant their employees leave to take Covid-19 vaccine shot.
Its Minister, Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said the leave would give confidence to Malaysians to be vaccinated as some are still worried about the jab.
“However, it depends on the employer to give leave as the government cannot declare a special holiday as it is not carried out on the same day,” he said at a media conference after attending the launch of Functional Adaptive Clothing by Social Security Organisation (Socso) here today.
10 Apr 2021 / 17:50 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The Human Resources Ministry agrees that employers grant their employees leave to take Covid-19 vaccine shots.
Its Minister, Datuk Seri M. Saravanan (
pix) said the leave would give confidence to Malaysians to be vaccinated as some are still worried about the jab.
“However, it depends on the employer to give leave as the government can not declare a special holiday as it is not carried out on the same day,” he said at a media conference after attending the launch of Functional Adaptive Clothing by the Social Security Organisation (Socso) here today.
Recently, Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, Khairy Jamaluddin said there were several suggestions raised at the meeting of the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) with the Human Resource Ministry, among them was a call for employers to give leave to the staff to take their vaccine shots.
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Decision on AstraZeneca vaccine in 2 weeks - Khairy
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The government will decide on whether Malaysia can continue to use the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine or not at the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) meeting in two weeks time.
Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin said that during the meeting, the government would scrutinise any additional information to be tabled by a panel of experts from the Health Ministry before making any decision.
He said the government took note of the report from.
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09 Apr 2021 / 17:27 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The government will decide on whether Malaysia can continue to use the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine or not at the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) meeting in two weeks time.
Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin said during the meeting, the government would scrutinise any additional information to be tabled by the panel of experts from the Health Ministry (MOH) before making any decision.
He said the government took note of the report from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which confirmed for the first time that there was a link between the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clotting cases.