PUTRAJAYA – A total of 7,000 firefighters on the front line of the war against the coronavirus have registered for Phase 1 of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, said Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin.
She said the inoculation exercise will be carried out in stages beginning Friday, with Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Seri Muhammad Hamdan Wahid and she herself to be among the vaccine recipients that day.
Zuraida, speaking to reporters here today, said there are some 14,000 firefighters nationwide.
The national vaccination programme, launched on February 24, will be carried out in three phases, and aims to get 80% of Malaysian adults inoculated against Covid-19 by next February.
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah and several frontliners were among the first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine on the day of the launch.
To date, 32,277 people have received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab in Malaysia. – Bernama, March 2, 2021
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