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Covid-19 vaccine: 62 volunteers become first batch to receive jabs

HSAH Clinical Research Centre (CRC) head Dr S.L. Vijaya Kumar: We have targeted 375 volunteers for the trials and this programme will be carried out in stages over a period of one month. Each volunteer will receive two jabs. After the first jab, they will be monitored each week for six weeks to see if there are any adverse effects.

Covid-19: Not reporting positive cases directly resulted in surge in cases in Selangor — MB

Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari in a statement today said the backlog of cases was over the past 10 days. "To overcome this problem, the Selangor State Health Department (JKNS) will impose compounds on private clinics or hospitals that do not report positive cases directly on the same day through the Public Health Laboratory Information System (SIMKA)."