KUCHING – Sarawak will receive 380,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine on Wednesday, enabling the state to speed up its Covid-19 immunisation process to achieve herd immunity as targeted, said Chief Minister Datuk Abang Johari Openg.
He said this batch of vaccines is part of the amount announced by National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin during his visit to Sarawak last week.
“Of this total, 89,360 doses will be sent to Miri on June 10. Our target is to hit one million vaccine jabs by the end of this month,” he told a news conference after visiting the Borneo Convention Centre (BCCK) mega vaccination centre here today.
Last week, Khairy announced that Sarawak will receive 380,000 doses of vaccine every week, from the first week of June until the end of August, putting the state on track to be the first in Malaysia to complete its immunisation programme by vaccinating 2.2 million of its population.
On the BCCK vaccination centre, Abang Johari said its first day of administering the AstraZeneca vaccine is progressing smoothly.
“Some 30,000 people have registered for the AstraZeneca vaccine in Sarawak, and today 1,000 people will get their jabs,” he said.
Apart from BCCK, another vaccination centre for administering AstraZeneca has been opened at the National Youth Skills Training Centre in Miri, which will operate from today until the end of July.
Abang Johari said Sarawak is using the hybrid method of registering people in the rural areas for vaccination through MySejahtera and manually.
However, he said since many rural residents live further away from the vaccination centres, they will still be inoculated if they show up without first registering through MySejahtera or the residents’ office.
Abang Johari said he has asked all elected representatives to help register the people in their constituencies so Sarawak can achieve herd immunity by the end of August. – Bernama, June 7, 2021
