No mixing of booster shots for Pfizer recipients, decision on AstraZeneca soon, says Khairy
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 29): The Health Ministry has recommended the same type of vaccine as booster shot for recipients of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 29): The Health Ministry has recommended the same type of vaccine as booster shot for recipients of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Clinical data showing a third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine strongly increased protection against symptomatic Covid-19 will encourage countries to progress with booster dose campaigns, said Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research.
KUALA LUMPUR (July 28): Putrajaya is in talks with vaccine manufacturers on the possibility of buying booster shots, Science, Technology and Innovative Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pictured) revealed today.
KUALA LUMPUR (July 5): Logistics provider DHL Express delivered the US government’s donation of around one million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Malaysia today.
KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): The Ministry of Health (MoH) said today it has not received any reports of heart inflammation from people who had been administered with Pfizer-BioNTech's Cormirnaty vaccine in Malaysia.
KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): Covid-19 vaccines produced by China's CanSino Biologics and the US' Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have been given conditional approval for their usage in Malaysia as both vaccines require only one dose to be effective, according to Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
PUTRAJAYA (Feb 23): Malaysia will receive its second batch of 182,520 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tomorrow (Feb 24) for distribution to states that have yet to receive the vaccine, said Coordinating Minister for National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 4): Malaysia's National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme will begin at the end of this month, to be rolled out in three phases up to February next year, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today.
SINGAPORE (Jan 17): A number of Malaysians working in Singapore have started receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 8): The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has received conditional registration from the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), according to Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.