KUALA LUMPUR – Registrations for the Public-Private Partnership Industrial Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pikas) for the manufacturing sector will be expedited with the implementation of online registration.
Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Lim Ban Hong said Pikas had received an encouraging response and had helped support the acceleration of vaccination rates among the population.
“Companies that send information via email earlier are asked to enter their company information in the Pikas online system so that the information is complete for the purpose of coordination and processing.
“Pikas plays an important role in giving confidence to workers in the manufacturing sector to feel safe in the workplace. This programme is also a pragmatic step to increase the company’s productivity as we adapt to living with this pandemic,” he said in a statement today.
As of yesterday, a total of 10,522 companies involving 903,244 employees nationwide have registered with Pikas. Of these, 101,117 had received the first dose of vaccination.
A total of 19 Pikas vaccination centres (PPV) have started operations in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor, Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Kedah, Penang and Terengganu.
The Ministry in collaboration with the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) and the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) are redoubling efforts to increase the number of existing Pikas PPVs to increase vaccination among the workforce in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia.
Lim said manufacturing sector companies interested in joining PIKAS can visit www.miti.gov.my or call the Pikas hotline at 03-62071193, 03-62071194, 03-62071195 or 03-62071196, or email [email protected].
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Pikas, launched on June 16, is a strategic collaboration between the public and private sectors that focuses on accelerating vaccination among workers in the manufacturing sector.
Through Pikas, the government provides vaccines for free while the private sector will fund and manage the PPVs, thus reducing the administrative cost of vaccination that has to be borne by the government. – Bernama, July 15, 2021
