According to MOH research, the highest fall in life expectancy per capita occured in Selangor with 3,473 extra years lost per 100,000 people, and among men at 2,132 years per 100,000 people.
Malaysia has received 3,894,000 doses of Pfizer’s children’s vaccine to date (if scheduled deliveries arrived), but only 1,604,135 doses have been administered in PICKids (41%) as of April 13.
The Covid-19 booster vaccination programme saw 98 AEFI reports per million doses as of April 8, lower than the overall vaccination programme’s rate of 377 reports per million doses.
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.
Public health policy mandating Covid-19 booster shots in those who received Sinovac vaccine and the elderly is supported by considerable evidence from scientific data.
Utilisation of Covid-19 paediatric beds in MOH hospitals by under-12 children increased by over 250% from about 100 beds occupied on Feb 2 to more than 350 on Feb 24.
17 patients qualified for the government financial assistance as of Feb 15 after experiencing serious Covid-19 AEFI; 23 applications were rejected and 147 are pending review.