The government must ramp up vaccination to provide adequate coverage in all states to hasten the rebooting of the economy and transition to the new normal of living with Covid-19 as an endemic.
Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman highlights potentially worse Covid-19 outbreaks in states with less health care resources than the Klang Valley, such as Johor, Kedah, Penang and Terengganu with fast rising cases.
Just more than a third of Malaysia’s adult population are double vaccinated against Covid-19 as of August 7, amid wide vaccination disparity between states.
Dr Chong Chee Kheong says people who don’t fill up their health assessment tools on MySejahtera will be called via robocall, but the robocall success rate is only 50%.
Sarawak has fully vaccinated more than half of its total population, while Penang, Terengganu, Pahang, Kedah, Kelantan, Johor, and Sabah have not even reached 20%.
In the spirit of gotong royong, the community should pool together their administrative and physical skills and resources to form volunteer medical teams consisting of your neighbour doctors, pharmacists, nurses, paramedics, and others.