PM: Covid-19 vaccines for 6.4 million Malaysians as early as January next year


PUTRAJAYA: The government has started rolling out a RM3bil plan to gain enough Covid-19 vaccines to immunise 6.4 million of the population, as soon the vaccine has been proven safe enough to be used as early as January 2021, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

The Prime Minister said that an early purchase agreement has been inked with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to gain a supply of 12.8 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine for 20% of the population, which will not include children under 12 years of age.

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