Seniors rely on their children to sign up for vaccine programme


Savvy move: Muhammad Hata (left) and Kamsatun signing up for jabs from their home in Sungai Buloh. — AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star

PETALING JAYA: For some senior citizens, it can be a mad scramble to sign up for the AstraZeneca vaccine programme, and they are enlisting the help of their children who live abroad.

A teacher in Penang, who only wanted to be known as Tan, wanted to register her husband, who is in his 60s and classified as “high risk”.

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