The Malaysian Insight

SELANGOR will get 20% of the national supply of Covid-19 vaccines this month and next, said Khairy Jamaluddin.

The coordinating minister for the Covid-19 immunisation campaign said Selangor had earlier had a capacity problem that has slowed down vaccination to only 20,000 shots a day. 

“I had to visit Selangor to work with the state government to increase the capacity and now they are doing almost 50,000 a day

“But they need to do more than 100,000 a day and this will be done through the PPVs (vaccination centres) as there are more of them in Selangor,” he said at an inoculation programme for pregnant women at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre.

He said Selangor had struggled to meet vaccination targets because it had the lowest vaccine utilisation rate in the country.

“The issue was not so much on the supply, it was the utilisation rate was low but now it has picked up,” he said.

Earlier this week, Selangor Taskforce for Covid-19 chairman Dzulkefly Ahmad said the state had the lowest vaccination rate compared to other states,

The former health minister said this was despite the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah’s call for the state to be given a bigger share of the vaccines. – June 26, 2021.