KUALA LUMPUR – A total of 312,390 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the first shipment to Malaysia.
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the vaccine will be flown by MASKargo flight to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), where it will be sorted and sent to various vaccine storage sites across the country.
“As announced by PM @MuhyiddinYassin, we will receive our first shipment of (the) Pfizer vaccine on Feb 21.
“We will have the army and police escorting and securing the vaccine from end to end,” he said in a Twitter post today.
Khairy said there are other vaccines going through the regulatory process with the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA).
“Hopefully, we can add other vaccines in Phase 1,” he added.
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had earlier today said he will receive the vaccine on the first day of the programme’s implementation, alongside frontliners.
The first phase of the programme that runs through April will involve frontliners, followed by the second phase, until August, for high-risk groups. The third phase, from May until February next year, is for those aged 18 and above. – Bernama, February 16, 2021
