Published on: Wednesday, January 27, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kuala Lumpur: The use of government buildings and facilities as swab test and temporary deployment centres of civil servants to services in need of additional health and safety support is among measures to be taken by the authorities in the implementation and management of emergency.
Chief Secretary to the Government (KSN) Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali
(pic) said it was also among the proposals discussed by the Emergency Management Technical Committee and was agreed upon by the National Security Council Emergency Session.
The proposals were among the committee’s focuses on the mobilisation of the Federal and State Public Services’ resources, he said in a statement, Tuesday.
Health Ministry inks agreements with vaccine suppliers
January 26, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Health (MOH) today signed term sheet agreements with two vaccine suppliers, Pharmaniaga Lifescience Sdn Bhd (PLS) and Duopharma (M) Sdn Bhd for the procurement of 18.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for 28.75 per cent of the Malaysian population.
MOH, in a statement today said PLS would supply 12 million doses of COVID-19 CORONAVAC, SARS-COV-2 Vaccine (Vero Cell) Inactivated produced by Sinovac Life Science Co. Ltd, which would be distributed in stages beginning April.
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“Duopharma will supply 6.4 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine, produced by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia. The vaccine is expected to be distributed in stages by end-March 2021,” it said.