80 percent of Sibu populace have registered for vaccination 19 Apr 2021 / 16:20 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
SIBU: About 80% of the over 300,000 populace in Sibu Division have registered for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, the highest in Sarawak at the moment.
Sibu Division Acting Resident, Wong Hee Sieng today said the percentage included those who have registered manually and through the MySejahtera application.
“The record on MySejahtera up to now is about 50%. The number will increase soon after the data of those who registered manually have been keyed into the MySejahtera application,” he told reporters at the launching of the second phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme at the Sibu Indoor Stadium here.
SIBU (Bernama): About 80% of over 300,000 populace in Sibu Division have registered for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, the highest in Sarawak at the moment.
Sibu Division Acting Resident, Wong Hee Sieng said the percentage included those who have registered manually and through the MySejahtera application. The record on MySejahtera up to now is about 50%. The number will increase soon after the data of those who registered manually have been keyed into the MySejahtera application, ” he told reporters at the launching of the second phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme at the Sibu Indoor Stadium here on Monday (April 19).
Wong, who is also the Sibu Division Disaster Management Committee (SDDMC) chairman, said the committee targeted 70% or 250,000 of the Sibu populace to receive the vaccine to achieve the herd immunity target.
Saturday, 17 Apr 2021 07:24 PM MYT
BY SULOK TAWIE
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a frontliner at the UiTM Private Specialist Centre in Sungai Buloh March 2, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUCHING, April 17 The second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Sarawak will start in Sibu Division on April 19 before going to other divisions, state Health director Dr Chin Zin Hing said today.
He said a total of 924 persons are expected to receive the vaccines at the Indoor Stadium in Sibu on that day.