KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (July 9): According to National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, a total of 3,190,789 people, or 10% of the Malaysian population, had completed two doses of Covid-19 immunization as of yesterday. According to him, Malaysia has already passed the first national threshold for transitioning from Phase One of Movement Control to Phase Two of the National Recovery Plan (PPN).
“Of the adult population, 30% have gotten their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 13.6 percent have completed two doses.”
“We declared earlier this month that we will administer 300,000 vaccines on average in July,” he remarked at the ‘Vaccine Advocacy Forum’ at the National Pharmacists Convention (NPC) 2021, which was webcast live on YouTube today.
Khairy, who is also the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, explained that the lower number of doses given out a few months earlier was due to poor vaccine supply as well as global inequalities in vaccine distribution.
From a total of 67 million doses procured, Malaysia had received 12.6 million doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Sinovac vaccines as of July 4, according to Khairy.
“We’re waiting for another 54 million vaccine doses to show the pharmacists’ society that this is clearly a supply issue, not a capacity issue, and once we get our supply, we’ll be running at a 90 percent utilization ratio,” he said.
According to data from Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Singapore, the number of new cases and deaths will begin to fall once 30 to 40 people have been fully vaccinated per hundred people (30 to 40 percent of the population fully vaccinated).
According to him, by the end of August, Malaysia would have 30 to 40 percent of its population fully vaccinated, resulting in a decrease in death rates based on global data.
Khairy also mentioned the method of observing Covid-19 data once a specific vaccination threshold has been reached, as a precaution to guarantee that people do not die or become hospitalized as a result of Covid-19, rather than suppression, because the number of instances may still be high.
He cited the situation in the United Kingdom, where the government is beginning to track hospitalization and death rates despite the fact that the Delta variety is causing more than 300,000 cases every day, just as the country is opening up.
“As we open up the economy, we are likely to continue that trajectory; transmission instances may still exist, but what we want to see is a decrease in death and hospitalization.” “What we need is for the Covid-19 cases to not be overcrowded in public and private healthcare facilities,” he said./n
