Khairy Jamaluddin cites agreements with vaccine manufacturers that prioritise fulfilling the federal government’s orders before state governments, industries, private hospitals, and other parties.
Three new Covid-19 cases were found with India’s B.1.617.2 variant, comprising two detected at Malaysia’s international gates and one from symptomatic screening, leading to five total cases of the B.1.617 variant in Malaysia.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women cannot select Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on MySejahtera, but CITF will coordinate with hospitals and doctors to prioritise them for the shot.
Khairy Jamaluddin previously projected from June the administration of 160,000 daily Covid-19 vaccine doses with sufficient vaccine supply to match demand.
Only 475,984 people under Phase Two of PICK have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, or 5% of the targeted 9.4 million high-risk individuals.
Medical frontliners in the Klang Valley say initially stable Covid-19 patients under quarantine -- including those in their 20s and 30s with comorbidities -- deteriorate within 7 days.