As health minister, Khairy Jamaluddin is expected to bring the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme with him to MOH, resolving the peculiar incongruity when the vaccine rollout was placed under his leadership in MOSTI.
Malaysia’s 21% vaccine breakthrough infection rate (including among partially inoculated people) is much higher than the UK (12.5%) and US (0.2%-5.9%) among the fully vaccinated.
The true spread of the more contagious Delta variant is unknown in Malaysia, while data on vaccine efficacy against Delta is only available for the Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines.
How many Covid-19 vaccine doses will be diverted to PIKAS? Malaysia had 3.2 million doses left in stock as of June 12; the manufacturing sector alone has 2.3 million workers.
Based on the experience of countries worldwide, positive rates as low as 1-3% are a better indication of the pandemic being under control; Malaysia’s current positive rate is about 7%.