News about vaccine

KUALA LUMPUR (May 19): The federal government has not blocked the alleged private offer to donate two million doses of Sinovac vaccine to the Penang state government which has since been found to be a scam, said Khairy Jamaluddin today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 19): Bookings for senior citizens for the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will start from May 23 (Sunday).

KLANG (May 18): Employers in Selangor can now buy Covid-19 vaccines for their staff via the state government, The Star reported yesterday.

LONDON (May 17): As the UK raced with time to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccination programme, working adults are slowly returning to London city centre.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 15): Overcrowding at Pusat Pemberian Vaksin AstraZeneca (PPVAZ), World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur (WTCKL), which today kicked off the biggest vaccination exercise to date under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, was due to many turning up to try their luck for a vaccine jab without an appointment.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 2): An overwhelming response to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine registration process saw the system being jammed up in the initial hour, and the entire 268,000 slots taken up in about three hours.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28): The government will not include the AstraZeneca vaccine under the National Covid-19 immunisation programme, said coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27): Property developer Yong Tai Bhd said its healthcare subsidiary has obtained approval from the Ministry of Health's Medical Review & Ethics Committee (MREC) for its Phase III clinical trial study of inactivated Covid-19 trial vaccines in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): With daily Covid-19 cases persistently coming in above 2,000 since April 15, the Health and Sciences Covid-19 Advisory Group of Experts today called on the government to centre its mitigation efforts on targeted Movement Control Orders (MCOs), and to speed up the country's vaccine roll-out.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pictured) has urged the federal government to immediately and completely support the efforts of the state government and private sector to procure approved vaccines in order to accelerate the vaccination rate in the country.