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Published on: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 By: Bernama Text Size: LABUAN: Labuan Tuesday completed fully vaccinating 80 per cent of its adult population and has become the first among federal territories and states in the country to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19. The federal territory has immunised 54,800 of the 68,500 adults listed as eligible for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick). The Labuan Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) and the Labuan Disaster Management Committee described the programme as a difficult task but acknowledged that great team work had resulted...

Published on: Saturday, July 24, 2021 By: Bernama PUTRAJAYA: National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pic) stressed that there was no connection between the empty vaccine syringe case and the syndicate selling Covid-19 vaccine in the country. “Out of the 16 million doses administered, only 13 police reports have been lodged on the issue of empty vaccine syringe shots by Health Ministry staff at several vaccination centres (PPVs),” he told a press conference here, Friday. Khairy said of the 13 police reports lodged, only one case where negli...

23 Jul 2021 / 10:56 H. Bernama KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 46.7 per cent of the adult population in Malaysia has received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine while 21.8 per cent have completed both doses, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pix). The Prime Minister said the progress of the vaccination process was in line with the target set by the government, but need to be intensified so that the target to fully vaccinate 26 million people in the country could be achieved. He said the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick) had succeeded in recording a daily vaccination rate of over 400...

Published on: Monday, July 19, 2021 By: Bernama Text Size: Kuala Lumpur: All adults in Malaysia are expected to be fully vaccinated by October under a new immunisation target set by the Government to stem the recent surge in Covid-19 cases, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin  (pic). He said the fast-track approach in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick) includes boosting the capacity for vaccination rate to 500,000 doses per day, to tackle the emergence of new variants of the virus which are more vicious. “Vaccination is the main key to our success in combating Cov...

Published on: Sunday, July 18, 2021 By: Bernama Credit: dw.com PUTRAJAYA: The decision to stop administering the Sinovac vaccine in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick) is because its delivery has been completed and has nothing to do with the vaccine’s efficacy, said PICK Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. According to him, Pharmaniaga Bhd had finished supplying 12 million doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine to the Government for the Pick earlier than the original schedule. “We are receiving the entire delivery (of the Sinovac vaccine) by the end of this month,” he s...