From Monday, the state government will launch a community-based Covid-19 mass screening initiative, known as Penang Covid-19 Screening (PSC-19) (July 5).
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GEORGE TOWN, ONTARIO (June 30) – From Monday, the state government will launch a community-based Covid-19 mass screening initiative, known as Penang Covid-19 Screening (PSC-19) (July 5).
The PSC-19, which will commence at the Penang City Stadium and involve the State Assembly constituencies of Sungai Pinang, Padang Kota, Dato Keramat, and Pulau Tikus, would be implemented in stages, according to Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow.
“The Penang government will completely fund the PSC-19 program, which will employ the RTK-Antigent approach. Apart from dealing with the individual State Assembly offices, a website called penangsaring.selangkah.my is being built to help Penang residents register “he said today on his official Facebook page during a live broadcast.
He also urged the National Security Council (MKN) to consider using the threshold value indicator of each State, rather than the national-level indicator, in determining when States should transition to Phase Two of the Movement Control under the National Recovery Plan (PPN).
“This is because each state has and is dealing with varied case infection rates,” he explained, “which necessitates specific attention in determining the next steps to take.”
States that successfully transitioned to Phase Two, according to Chow, will still need to improve enforcement and compliance with the standard operating procedure (SOP) in order to advance to the next phase.
Meanwhile, according to Chow, the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme will provide 591,532 vaccine doses to Penang from July 5 to July 28. (PICK).
As a result, he anticipated Penang will be able to meet the three goals: administering both doses of the vaccine to 10% of the population, vaccinating registered senior adults aged 60 and above, and vaccinating registered receivers aged 60 and below./n
