Phase 1 may include teachers and media personnel

PETALING JAYA: Teachers in the high-risk group and media personnel in the front line are being considered for vaccination under the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, the government announced.

“The requests for vaccination from teachers seem reasonable and fair, seeing that schools will be opening in March, ” Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said, as the much-awaited first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday.