Aggressive push for elderly to register for AstraZeneca vaccine needed
May 24, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – The COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) has been urged to review the AstraZeneca voluntary vaccine registration process, especially involving the elderly so as to increase the percentage of registrants from this target group.
Universiti Putra Malaysia Medical and Public Health Faculty medical expert Assoc Prof Dr Malina Osman said the matter should be considered in detail to speed up the vaccination process for the group and help reach the vaccination target of 80 per cent of the population to achieve herd immunity.
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She said an aggressive registration approach of engaging the elderly was better because the group might face difficulty registering online without assistance from others.
Monday, 24 May 2021 11:12 PM MYT
Members of the public wait to receive the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur May 5, 2021. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 The Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) has been urged to review the AstraZeneca voluntary vaccine registration process, especially involving the elderly so as to increase the percentage of registrants from this target group.
Universiti Putra Malaysia Medical and Public Health Faculty medical expert Assoc Prof Dr Malina Osman said the matter should be considered in detail to speed up the vaccination process for the group and help reach the vaccination target of 80 per cent of the population to achieve herd immunity.
Friday, 14 May 2021 03:53 PM MYT
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MAY 14 ― In this
Malaysiakinireport, it shares the Clinical Guidelines on Covid-19 Vaccination in Malaysia by the Ministry of Health.
In the guideline, for pregnant women, the ministry said recent data indicated that mRNA-based vaccines were safe for both the mother and fetus, “Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are mRNA-based vaccines which build spike proteins, mimicking the surface protein of Sars-COV-2 to trigger an immune response. These vaccines do not contain live Sars-COV-2 and hence is not infective to the pregnant mother and her fetus,” it said.
Monday, 10 May 2021 05:00 AM MYT
BY DANIAL DZULKIFLY
A nurse administers a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at the Dewan Gemilang UKM vaccination centre in Bangi May 5, 2021. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 The government should take active measures to ensure the delayed arrival of Covid-19 vaccines does not jeopardise the National Immunisation Programme, health experts said.
After coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin revealed that the main phase of the NIP could be delayed due to the slow delivery of the vaccines, the health experts said the government could try to minimise the effects of these delays as much as possible.
Saturday, 08 May 2021 04:06 PM MYT
A nurse administers a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at the Dewan Gemilang UKM vaccination centre in Bangi May 5, 2021. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 A total of 666,495 individuals have completed both doses of the vaccine under the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as of yesterday.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said they were among the 1,060,773 individuals who had been given the first dose, bringing the total number of doses administered so far to 1,727,268 doses.