It’s unclear how long the vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech will protect against coronavirus infection because the vaccine has been studied for only a few months.
Medical supplies across clinical specialties are allocated under two budget items totalling RM4.29 billion in MOH’s Specific Programmes section in operating expenditure of Budget 2021; Covid-19 vaccines are also not listed for MOH under the separate Covid-19 Fund.
Experts say that children will also have to wait for the Covid-19 vaccine as most clinical trials for candidate vaccines have not included children as their subjects.
Bintai Kinden Corp Bhd has signed a Covid-19 vaccine agreement with US-based Generex Biotechnology Corp; it is unknown if Generex’s vaccine has been tested in human trials.