LABUAN – Labuan has vaccinated 1,789, or 76.45%, of its 2,340 frontliners as of today, with the remaining to receive the shot in stages until April.
Its National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme was launched on February 27, a day after the arrival of 4,680 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Labuan Ferry Terminal from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Natural Disaster Management Committee chairman Rithuan Ismail said the vaccination drive has received overwhelming response not only from frontliners, but also from government department heads.
“We did not expect that we will top the list with the most number of people vaccinated per 100,000 population.”
Labuan has three vaccination centres, namely at Membedai Health Clinic, Labuan Nucleus Hospital and Malaysian Armed Forces Hospital at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Membedai.
Rithuan said the inoculation exercise for all 450 frontliners at Labuan Nucleus Hospital was completed today.
Today, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin released the vaccination figures for the first dose according to states, with the number recorded nationwide hitting 80,336.
The Federal Territory of Labuan, with a population of 103,000, has the highest number of people vaccinated with the first dose of the Pfizer shot in Malaysia at 1,789 people per 100,000 population.
As of today, it has an infection rate of 2,253 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population, the highest compared with other states and federal territories of Malaysia. – Bernama, March 4, 2021
