As Malaysia has suffered under overloaded hospitals and around 8000+ new cases yesterday, the government decided to
impose a full lockdown on June 1 for 2 weeks.
The lockdown will go in three stages:
Phase One is when only 2 people can meet at one time, to focus on lowering Covid cases
Phase Two is when some economic sectors can reopen, for four weeks
Phase Three is when the May MCO will be used, with more economic sectors.
At the meantime, Malaysians are looking forward for a coming wave of more vaccines, around 6-7 million.
Malaysia have bought an additional 12.8 million doses from Pfizer, totalling 44.8 million doses, covering 70% of the population.
2,223,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Jun, about 444,600 per week. -
Ghows Azzam, a government official
The government will be
acquiring a total of 8.2 million doses of Sinovac vaccine by the end of June, with 3.8 million of them through fill and finish by Pharmaniaga Life Science Sdn Bhd.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said 4.4 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine was imported directly from China with 400,000 already distributed and one million doses had arrived while the remaining three million would be received by the end of next month.
“..from the Pharmaniaga Life Science Sdn Bhd plant, 1.8 million are ready while two more million will be available by the end of June, thus giving the government a total of 8.2 million doses then,” he told a media conference after witnessing the ‘fill and finish’ process at Pharmaniaga Life Science Sdn Bhd factory in Puchong near here today.
The programme’s coordinating minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, today announced that the federal government will be
supplying 4.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for all 2.2 million eligible Sarawakians with extra for buffer, and therefore Sarawak would not have to buy its own vaccines.
“I hope that with this assurance we will be able to see Sarawak achieve its target (to vaccinate 2.2 million of its residents) by the end of August and become the first state to complete the Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme,” he told a virtual press conference after attending the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) meeting at Wisma Bapa Malaysia here today.
With the assurance and commitment by the federal government, Khairy said an estimated 380,000 doses will be sent to Sarawak per batch beginning June, until the 4.4 million doses have been fulfilled by the end of August.