PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has become the first person in Malaysia to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, as the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme got off the blocks today.
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Muhyiddin was administered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Putrajaya district health office.
Also joining Muhyiddin in getting their first jab of the vaccine were health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah and four other frontliners.
They will be allowed to leave after resting and waiting at the observation room for 15 minutes, where health officers will monitor for allergic reactions.
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The first phase of the immunisation programme will involve health and non-health frontliners, as well as all MPs and state assemblymen, and is expected to end in April.
The second phase will involve Covid-19 high-risk groups, namely senior citizens, vulnerable individuals with comorbidities and disabled persons. This is expected to go on from April to August, involving around 9.4 million people.
The third phase of the programme will involve adults aged 18 and above, who will be given the jabs from May this year to February next year, running concurrently with the second phase.- FMT