GEORGE TOWN: The manufacturing sector in Penang hopes the Federal government will expedite the rollout of the mass vaccination programme for economic frontliners once the new batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Malaysia, expected in June. Special investment adviser to the Chief Minister of Penang Datuk Lee Kah Choon said several manufacturing associations had already been preparing the groundwork to implement mass vaccination programmes for industrial workers. He said that coordinated means under the public-private partnership immunisation model was needed in order to effectively streamline the mass vaccination for the economic frontliners and achieve herd immunity. "With Penang as one of the top foreign direct investment recipients among Malaysian states, we hope that the Federal government can expedite the mass vaccination programme rollout for our employees once the new batch of vaccines arrives in Malaysia,” he said in a virtual press conference here, today.