Coming our way: Dr Adham after adding his signature to the agreement to procure the Pfizer vaccine for Malaysia. Attending the signing ceremony on-screen is Thangpaibool at the Health Ministry. Bernama
PUTRAJAYA: The government has signed an agreement for the first phase delivery of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines covering over 12 million doses.
The agreement for the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT1262b vaccine is to procure 12,799,800 doses to be supplied from the end of February, covering 20% of the population who will receive two doses.
The Health Ministry yesterday said the government also agreed to procure an additional 12.2 million doses to bring the total number of the vaccines received this year to 25 million doses, covering 39% of Malaysians.
PUTRAJAYA (Jan 11): The government via the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Pfizer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd today signed an agreement for the first phase delivery of the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech BNT1262b vaccines in Malaysia.
The manufacturing and supply agreement for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines was signed via a live conference by Health Minister Datuk Seri Adham Baba, on behalf of the Malaysian government, and for Pfizer its country manager (Malaysia and Brunei) Luksanawan Thangpaibool.
The agreement was an extension of the binding heads of terms agreement signed on Nov 24, 2020.
The agreement with Pfizer (Malaysia) involves the procurement of 12,799,800 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to be supplied from the end of February to cover 20% of the population who will each receive two doses, the MoH said in a statement today.