PM: Govt mulls legal action against anti-vaxxers


  • Nation
  • Friday, 04 Jun 2021

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The government is mulling the idea of taking legal action against anti-vaccine groups in the country if they were found to have incited public opinion against the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the government had, in fact, asked the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) to study the possibility to make the vaccination compulsory for all if the number of those registered in the programme still far from achieving herd immunity.

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