The reciprocal recognition of Covid-19 vaccination certificates with the EU includes exemption of travel-related testing and quarantine for fully vaccinated persons within a definite timeframe.
Amirudin Shari also says he is working with Khairy Jamaluddin on enabling stateless people or undocumented foreign workers in Selangor to register for Covid-19 vaccination.
The Malaysian Society for Occupational Safety and Health highlights increasing Covid-19 cases in Penang, Perak, Pahang, Terengganu, Kelantan, and Sabah, amid poor vaccination coverage.
Malaysia’s 21% vaccine breakthrough infection rate (including among partially inoculated people) is much higher than the UK (12.5%) and US (0.2%-5.9%) among the fully vaccinated.
The government must ramp up vaccination to provide adequate coverage in all states to hasten the rebooting of the economy and transition to the new normal of living with Covid-19 as an endemic.
Khairy Jamaluddin says there shouldn’t be discrimination against different manufacturing sites producing AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine as these facilities use the same formula.