News about AstraZeneca

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 4): The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and the Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah have expressed their appreciation to the United Kingdom (UK) government for the donation of 415,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday.

SEPANG (Aug 3): Malaysia today received 415,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine contributed by the United Kingdom (UK), which will further boost the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK).

PUTRAJAYA (July 29): The United Kingdom (UK) is to contribute 415,000 doses of the UK manufactured AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 6): The EU should not discriminate over where AstraZeneca vaccine are produced, as the same formula is used at all its manufacturing facilities, said the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 1): The Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) has agreed to shorten the dosing interval for the AstraZeneca vaccine to nine weeks from 12 weeks.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 21): The World Health Organization (WHO) should ask all countries to recognise all types of Covid-19 vaccines that are listed by WHO, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Malaysia's vaccination rate hit a new high this week, with more than 200,000 daily shots given out for three straight days, compared with just between 60,000 and 197,000 shots previously, as the country's vaccination plan speeds up.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 16): Japanese government will provide AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured in Japan to Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, its Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu announced on Tuesday.

PETALING JAYA (June 11): I had my first AZ jab in IDCC, Shah Alam on June 9 at 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): A total of 154,866 doses of vaccine were administered yesterday (June 9) — the highest so far — and also marked the second consecutive day the country breached the 150,000 level, according to latest data from the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV).