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SUNGAI BESAR (Bernama): The Education Ministry will give priority to high-risk teachers if the request for them to be included in the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme starting Wednesday (Feb 24) is approved.
Deputy Education Minister 1 Muslimin Yahaya said the Ministry is in discussions with the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry for teachers to also be given the vaccine in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme seeing that schools will be opening next month. If the request is approved, the Ministry will give priority to high-risk teachers to get the vaccine, ” he told reporters after conducting a survey on the first day of the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination at Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan (SMJK) Yoke Kuan, Sekinchan here on Monday (Feb 22).
Four thousand MAF health staff to be inoculated first
February 22, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – More than 4,000 Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) health staff are expected to be given priority to receive the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the first phase of the national immunisation programme.
COVID-19 Vaccine Strategic Committee acting chairman and Inspector General of MAF’s Health Services Division Brig Gen Datuk Dr Rosman Ab Rahman said 4,680 doses of the vaccine were received by MAF today.
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“The vaccination (for the health staff) will be done after Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is scheduled to be inoculated this Wednesday.
“We are still planning (about) who will receive the vaccine. (However), priority is given to MAF health staff, frontliners, and those working in red zones, while personnel working in key areas are also among those being considered for the time being,” he said.
22 Feb 2021 / 13:20 H. Deputy Education Minister 1, Muslimin Yahaya (second, right) with SPM candicates at Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan (SMJK) Yoke Kuan on Feb 22 - Bernama
SUNGAI BESAR, Feb 22: The Education Ministry (MOE) will give priority to teachers in the high-risk group for the COVID-19 vaccine if the request for them to be included in the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme starting Wednesday, is approved.
Deputy Education Minister 1 Muslimin Yahaya said the MOE was in discussions with the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (MOSTI) for teachers to also be given the vaccine in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme seeing that schools will be opening next month.
Smooth start to SPM 2020 amid tight SOPs 22 Feb 2021 / 17:35 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The 401,105 candidates sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2020 will go down in history as the first batch of fifth formers to sit for the much-delayed public examination in the new norm, as the country was laid low by the coronavirus pandemic.
The examination conducted with strict adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs) kicked off with Bahasa Melayu Paper 1 and 2 at 8 am and 2 pm respectively today, with 8.014 invigilators deployed to maintain proper conduct of examination sessions including full compliance of the SOPs.
Besides having to go through the longest annual SPM class session for almost 14 months, this batch of SPM candidates had been forced to switch to online learning via applications such as Google Meet, Google Classroom and Skype.