KUALA LUMPUR: Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin has assured that media practitioners will get vaccinated against the virus soon.
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While waiting for his joint Press conference with Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba to start, Khairy remarked that the list of media representatives to be vaccinated was now available.
“Bobby (Khairy’s press secretary Raja Syahrir Bakar) came to me this morning with a list of the media to be vaccinated soon.
“However, we have do not know yet whether it will be Sinovac or Pfizer,” said the Science, Technology and Innovation minister.
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Khairy has previously said members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and journalist associations in Sabah and Sarawak would be vaccinated starting this month.
He said the government agreed to include media practitioners in the priority list of those receiving Covid-19 vaccinations subject to supply.
Malaysia is currently in its second phase of its Covid-19 vaccination programme which is for the elderly, the disabled and those with comorbidities.-NST