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“The Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV) will meet next week to decide on the guidelines for the private sale of vaccines, including the ceiling price,” he said at his weekly joint media briefing with Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba yesterday.
Khairy added that the cap on prices is to ensure that the vaccines would not be sold at too high a price.
“A lot of people have been asking why we don’t open up the private market for people who are willing to pay.
“We had agreed that when the Federal Government has enough stock of vaccines, we will open up the market so that we can reach our (vaccination) target much faster.
Friday, 23 Jul 2021 10:09 AM MYT
BY JUSTIN ONG
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin greets members of the public at the Menara Sime Darby Plantation drive-thru vaccination centre in Petaling Jaya June 24, 2021. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin congratulated the country’s health workers and Malaysians for reaching the target of 500,000 daily Covid-19 vaccinations yesterday, but said the momentum must be kept up to protect all of Malaysia.
He also expressly thanked medical frontliners as well as volunteers serving at vaccination centres across the country for helping to meet this objective.