KOTA KINABALU – More than 200,000 people will be receiving the Covid-19 jabs in Phase 2 of the vaccination programme in Sabah, which begins today.
Some 268,000 people will be vaccinated, said Sabah Community Development and People’s Well-being Minister Shahelmy Yahya, adding that in the first phase, a total of 42,115 people received the prerequisite double dose.
“To date, only 426,934 people registered for the vaccine (390,385 on the app, 36,307 on the website, 242 via the vaccination hotline), or 14.6%,” Shahelmy told reporters after launching Phase 2 of the immunisation programme here at the Federal Administrative Complex multipurpose hall here.
This means Sabah still has the lowest number of registrants, he added.
Shahelmy was representing Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor for the launch. Also present was Sabah Health Director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi.
Meanwhile, six frontliners have contracted Covid-19 despite receiving both vaccine doses, said Shahelmy.
He said is still necessary to continue observing health standard operating procedures even after being fully inoculated, because there is no guarantee of non-infection even with both doses.
Shahelmy said there has been no incidence of queue-jumpers, adding all those who have received the shot in Phase 1 are frontliners and essential service workers.
He said this in response to talks of non-frontliners and essential services workers having already received their jabs. – The Vibes, April 19, 2021
