7 October 2021
Khairy Jamaluddin also emphasises personal responsibility when travelling interstate, as it’s impossible to mount roadblocks to check for unvaccinated travellers.
Tag: booster vaccines
4 October 2021
Khairy Jamaluddin says JKJAV’s technical sub-committee has recommended using a different vaccine for a third dose in the Covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
4 October 2021
Immunologists and virologists say there is no strong scientific data in Malaysia yet that shows waning immunity from Covid-19 vaccines that still protect against severe disease and death.
28 September 2021
Letter
Ensure A Well-Coordinated Approach In Delivering Third Covid-19 Vaccine Doses To Dental Practitioners — MDA
Due to the nature of dental practice, early access to the third dose of the vaccine for dentists is essential.
27 September 2021
Muhyiddin Yassin says this is a result of the government’s previous decision to order more than enough vaccines for the needs of the Malaysian population.
24 September 2021
Khairy Jamaluddin says the third shot is for people who don’t gain sufficient immune response from two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, whereas boosters are to curb waning immunity in other individuals who responded well to double vaccination.
23 September 2021
The FDA has approved a single booster shot of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for senior citizens aged 65 and older and certain high-risk groups, after previously authorising a third dose in a three-dose primary vaccination series for immunocompromised individuals.
22 September 2021
The Malaysian Health Coalition tells MOH to publish local data on increased cases, hospitalisation, or deaths from Covid-19 in high-risk groups, including breakthrough cases, that would prove the need for booster shots.
17 September 2021
Dr Sim Kui Hian says third jabs will be offered to three priority groups in line with the target recipients in the first three phases of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
15 September 2021
Covid-19 vaccine boosters will be prioritised for high-risk groups (immunocompromised, the elderly with comorbidities, residents and workers at long-term care facilities, frontline health workers, and people previously infected with Covid-19 who completed inoculation in Phase 1) in states that fully vaccinated more than 80% of their adult population.