KOTA KINABALU: A first brain surgery was carried out on a conscious patient successfully in Sabah by a team of surgeons from Queen Elizabeth 2 Hospital (HQE2) and University Malaysia Sabah (UMS).
The Health Department is still waiting for the whole genomic sequencing result for a Covid-19-positive woman from Tawau to determine if she was also positive for Omicron like her husband who was recorded as Sabah's first case from the world's fast-spreading variant
About 76,000 Sabahans have received their Covid-19 booster shots so far, which accounts for seven per cent of the State’s population, said Community Development and People’s Wellbeing Minister Datuk Shahelmey Yahya.
Shahelmey, who is also the appointed director of Sabah’s immunisation programme, said the vaccination rate of booster shots is expected to peak in January next year. He explained that the slow rate was due to many still being ineligible for the booster dose
KOTA KINABALU, Oct 20 Approximately 60,000 frontliners and 193,953 senior citizens as well as those in the high-risk category in Sabah are eligible for the Covid-19 booster dose under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) from today. During its launch at the Sabah International.