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KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): Malaysia's cumulative number of administered Covid-19 vaccine doses topped 17 million as of yesterday (July 25) at 17.32 million after country recorded a daily figure of 399,135 shots, according to the latest updates on Twitter today by the country's Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF). The country’s total number of administered doses was 16.9 million as of Saturday (July 24). However, the daily figure of administered shots at 399,135 yesterday was lower than the 417,7...

Published on: Monday, July 26, 2021 By: Bernama Text Size: PUTRAJAYA: The guidelines for illegal immigrants and refugees to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots have been approved, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pic).  He said the guidelines have been approved by the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) to enable illegal immigrants and refugees to be present at vaccination centres (PPV) for vaccination and the details on the matter would be announced later. In a virtual interview with the media recently, Khairy said non-governmenta...

Vaccination guidelines for illegal immigrants, refugees, approved by CITF 25 Jul 2021 / 20:25 H. Bernama PUTRAJAYA: The guidelines for illegal immigrants and refugees to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots have been approved, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. He said the guidelines have been approved by the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) to enable illegal immigrants and refugees to be present at vaccination centres (PPV) for vaccination and the details on the matter would be announced later. In a virtual interview with the m...

Learn from West and India to deal with Delta variant 26 Jul 2021 / 10:12 H. IT is disconcerting to note that we hit a record high in Covid infections of 17,045 new cases yesterday, with 92 deaths after recording nearly 200 deaths earlier. This is despite the lockdown since June 1. Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has attributed these recent increases partly to the rising dominance of the Delta variant. Notwithstanding that we have limited genomic sequencing capacity, the rapidly rising number of infections and deaths do reflect the scenario faced by countries in Eur...

AS unbelievable as this sounds, many of us are now in the unenviable position of wondering if our vaccination wasn’t merely blank shots, which reports have intimated. These are probably isolated incidents, but we certainly have source for concern. There’s a trust deficit in Malaysia, and that’s calling it like it is. It’s fair to say there’s a general wariness with the government, and these acts of negligence have become associated with alleged corruption and incompetence. Never mind that the frontliners have administered over 16 million doses and 13 police reports have been lodged ...