Much-needed help: Lee helping Yap to secure the foodstuffs he had donated on her rickety stroller.
SEREMBAN: Octogenarian Yap Yen Fong was making her morning round collecting recyclables in a back alley along Jalan Tun Dr Ismail here when she saw a group of people taking away bags of household items they had received from a man at a car park.
Slowly, the 87-year-old widow pushed the rickety stroller she uses to transport the discarded items and made her way towards a canopy to get a closer look.
The man, who had been busy distributing the items, noticed the frail woman and quickly made his way towards her with a bag of foodstuff including a tray of eggs and other essentials.
SEREMBAN: Negri Sembilan will receive nearly triple the doses of Covid-19 vaccines from next month and see the opening of more vaccination centres, allowing 80% of the state’s population to be inoculated ahead of schedule.
National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the increase in the number of doses was necessary as the number of cases in the state had surged in recent days.
“Currently, Negri Sembilan gets an average of 7, 000 doses a day and we intend to increase this to 20, 000 a day in July.
“This has become necessary as the number of cases in the state, which has many industrial areas, have shown an increase, ” he said after a meeting with Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun and members of the state Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force.