Plan for vaccine to cover everybody eventually

IT’S welcome news that the government is proactively securing safe vaccines for the rakyat, hopefully by early next year (“Vaccines for 6.4 million M’sians next year”, The Star, Nov 28; online at bit.ly/star_2021). After enduring the Covid-19 pandemic for the past eight months, such a move can’t come too soon.

It’s also reassuring that the government is planning to provide free vaccines, and prioritising the most vulnerable groups first. But exactly how this is going to be done must be clearly spelt out and made known to the public.