The health minister is visiting Sarawak to discuss measures to handle rising Covid-19 outbreaks in the state, such as mobilising health care workers, and ensuring sufficient test kits and protective gear.
Elected reps say MySejahtera is not a user-friendly app, particularly for the elderly, to register for Covid-19 vaccination, even in urban PJ and Kuching.
Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii cites Vaccine Minister Khairy Jamaluddin’s earlier plans for a “ring vaccination” strategy to deploy vaccines to Covid-19 outbreak areas.
A Sibu Hospital doctor complains about the proposed exclusion of housemen from the first round of Covid-19 vaccination, but the Sarawak state health department says trainee doctors and other hospital staff will not be left out of inoculation.
The government will conduct a dry run on January 29 to transport saline-filled bottles at minus 70 degrees Celsius from a Covid-19 vaccine storage centre in Sarawak to a vaccination site in Belaga district, Kapit, Sarawak.