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Malaysia shuts jab centre after 200 workers infected

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204 staff and volunteers out of 453 at the vaccination centre tested positive for COVID-19.

The Southeast Asian nation is battling a serious outbreak driven by highly infectious variants, and has been under a strict lockdown since the start of June.

But a vaccination centre in hard-hit Selangor state was forced to close after 204 staff and volunteers out of 453 there tested positive, said Khairy Jamaluddin, minister in charge of the inoculation drive. Four hundred of the workers there had been inoculated, he added, but he did not say which vaccine they had been given. Malaysia is using the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Sinovac jabs in its rollout.

The centre's closure led to thousands of appointments being rescheduled, but it will re-open Wednesday after sanitisation, with new staff.

 

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That is so ridiculous. This shows how lax the management is.

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