Among concerns expressed by Bangi constituents are not being able to choose their Covid-19 vaccine, unsure how to register with MySejahtera, and perceived transport difficulties in visiting vaccination sites.
Among those who got their applications approved either had health problems, were caregivers to sick travellers, had a history of Covid-19 infection, used the Periodic Commuting Arrangement, children below 16, had to make funeral arrangements for family members, the elderly etc.
CITF has listed additional frontline workers for Covid-19 vaccination, bringing the total targeted frontliners in Phase 1 of PICK to 647,398 from the original 500,175 individuals.
Even though the general public from Phase 3 will get early jabs too, MySejahtera’s algorithm automatically bumps up senior citizens, OKU, and people with comorbidities when they register for Covid-19 vaccination.
The government will soon release a framework for private hospitals to procure Covid-19 vaccines for a private inoculation programme, says Khairy Jamaluddin.
With 56,876 first doses left to be administered, it will take 7 days to achieve the government’s target of vaccinating 500,000 frontliners, based on an average of 8,399 daily first doses administered in the past week, which is one day behind schedule.
Khairy Jamaluddin says if the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) approves Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine in the first week of April, Malaysia may start receiving doses by May.