KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia must be careful when using the term"herd immunity" as COVID-19 is likely to stay even after a large portion of the population is vaccinated, national coordinating minister for immunisation Khairy Jamaluddin said on Wednesday .
Based on latest statistics published by Malaysia’s Special Committee on Covid-19 Vaccine Supply , around 14.6 million people have registered for the national COVID-19 immunisation programme. Out of this, over 3.8 million have been fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, the vaccination exercises for key economic states Penang and Johor would likely be done in October, while the rest of Malaysia would be completed by December.
“I think some countries may have done this too early, especially with the B16172 variant which is far more transmissible than the original version of the virus,” said Mr Khairy. “As you can see, benchmarked against our neighbors Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and I'm talking our bigger neighbours here because I don't run a country which is the size of a postage stamp, you see that Malaysia is doing pretty well,” said Mr Khairy.FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares a dose of a vaccine for COVID-19 at a vaccination centre in Sunway Medical Centre, in Subang Jaya, Malaysia Mar 12, 2021.
Would you like to reconsider your benchmark Khairykj ?
at the moment , Malaysia got other priorities , 'herd immunity' shouldn't be mentioned , at all
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