95 Percent Of Frontliners In Malaysia Have Received First Dose Of Covid-19 Vaccine

MELAKA (Malaysia), April 20 (Bernama) -- At least 95 percent of the total 571,000 front-line workers in Malaysia have received the first dose of the vaccine under Phase One of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme. Coordinating minister for the programme, Khairy Jamaluddin, said, he expected the vaccination for all the frontliners to be completed by end of April. He said this when observing Phase Two of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme in Melaka on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Khairy, who is Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, said 84 per cent or 528 out of 540 doses of vaccine were successfully given on the first day of Phase Two of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme in Melaka, yesterday. The remaining 16 per cent was not administered because the supposed recipients were not present, he said, adding that he would check into the matter. However, he said, he was satisfied with the rate of attendance of the recipients as it reflected the public confidence in the vaccine given by the government. -- BERNAMA