Selangor only started receiving delivery of its purchased 2.5 million Sinovac doses in June despite making payments for the vaccine back in February, while PICK started receiving Sinovac in March.
Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud says the Ministry of Health cited the PDPA in its refusal of the Selangor state government’s requests to link MySejahtera with Selangkah.
The Selangor ruler says faults across the board triggered a third wave of the epidemic that sent Covid-19 cases and deaths soaring in the state that comprises 36% of Malaysia’s reported infections and fatalities.
Daily hospital admissions, number of patients in hospital, ICU cases, and infections of Covid-19 in Selangor, KL, Putrajaya, and Negeri Sembilan as a whole dropped in the past few weeks, with half of the Greater Klang Valley’s total population fully vaccinated.
Selangor expects to see a decline in Categories Three, Four and Five Covid-19 cases by end August or in September, amid increasing vaccination coverage.
Selangor MB Amirudin Shari says to date, about 77% of Selangor’s adult population have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, including 44% who are fully vaccinated.