Many nations that have good vaccination rates and have lifted restrictions have suffered new waves, showing us how fragile we still are in the face of Covid-19.
PAC chairman Wong Kah Woh says demand for Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine peaked in August and September last year during the Delta surge, not when the vaccine price caps were imposed in January earlier this year.
Until and unless the authorities take a stern and uncompromising set of actions against anti-vaxxers, the general public will continue to be bombarded with fear-mongering, fake news, and misinformation.
The government has ordered 6.6 million doses of Pfizer’s paediatric Covid-19 vaccine, but at the current vaccination rate, only 1.6 million kids may be vaxxed with 1st dose by April 18.
Overall federal spending on Covid-19 – including vaccination, medicines, reagents, PPE, quarantine, frontline worker allowances – stood at RM10.3 billion as of February 28, 2022.
If you received an appointment for a fourth Covid vaccine dose for yourself or a booster appointment for your teenage kid, please cancel it; don’t turn up at the PPV.
According to Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin calls Sarawak “Darul Vaksin” with nearly 70% of under-12 children in the state receiving at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose.