Vaccine arrives, takes Malaysia's battle against Covid-19 to next level
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): Malaysia has now joined the global community in a more intense fight against the coronavirus with the first arrival today of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that will set into motion the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. This first batch of 312,390 doses of the long-awaited vaccine arrived in Malaysia from Singapore, the hub for distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to Asia-Pacific countries, by air and overland. A special Malaysia Airlines flight, MH604, in the Jalur Gemilang (national flag) livery, flew in two unit load devices (ULD) of the vaccine at 10.07am to th...