Malaysia’s Covid-19 vaccination programme to begin by end of February

The vaccination programme would involve three phases starting with some 500,000 frontliners, consisting of healthcare workers as well as non-healthcare workers. File Photo

KUCHING (Feb 4): The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme will be rolled out at the end of this month and is expected to reach over 80 per cent of the population or 26.5 million people by February next year, said Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

He said in a televised address today that the programme would involve three phases starting with some 500,000 frontliners, consisting of healthcare workers as well as non-healthcare workers.

“This phase is very important to protect our people on the frontlines in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The first phase of the immunisation programme is scheduled to be completed in April,” he said.

The second phase, Muhyiddin said, would be for high risk Covid-19 groups such as senior citizens above 60 years old; those with morbidities like heart disease, obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure, and the disabled.

Some 9.4 million people are expected to be vaccinated in this phase which will be carried out from April to August this year, the prime minister said.

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