News about immunisation

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): The government is confident of administering more than 300,000 doses of daily vaccination jab per day in the coming months, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): The public-private partnership immunisation programme (PIKAS) needs to prioritise critical industrial sectors facing high risk of Covid-19 infection and widen its coverage to encompass all 17 essential sectors, the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) said.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): Employers will have to fully bear vaccination charges for workers in critical economic sectors in the Economic Frontliners Vaccination Programme for the retail sector, which is expected to begin this month, according to ProtectHealth Corp Sdn Bhd (ProtectHealth).

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.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): Malaysia administered its highest daily vaccination rate with 197,963 doses delivered yesterday (June 14), according to the latest data from the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV).

LENGGONG (June 14): Nur Amalina Baharuddin, an expectant mother who is also the three millionth Malaysian to receive the vaccine, shared that she experienced no side effects from the PfizerBioNTech vaccine shot which she received at the Gerik Multipurpose Hall vaccination centre (PPV), Hulu Perak on Saturday evening.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 14): A total 128,912 vaccine doses were administered yesterday (June 13), a decline from 133,804 recorded in the previous day, according to the latest data from the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV).

KUALA LUMPUR (June 13): A total of 133,804 Covid-19 vaccine doses were administered throughout the nation yesterday (Saturday, June 12), bringing the total doses administered to 4.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): Program Imunisasi Industri Covid-19 Kerjasama Awam-Swasta (PIKAS) for the manufacturing sector will be launched as Phase 4 of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK), beginning on June 16.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): Selangor will receive 25% of all Covid-19 vaccine procurements, a Federal Minister said yesterday in response to the Selangor Sultan's remark that the State had only received about 600,000 vaccines so far.