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Healthcare workers carry out Covid-19 screening in Kuala Lumpur October 21, 2020. Malaysia is expected to receive the first batch of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines on February 26, a senior health official said today. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 1 Malaysia is expected to receive the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on February 26, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said that once arrived, the vaccine will be distributed in stages to the states within a week or two.
Give CKD patients priority in vaccination programme
February 1, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – The government has been urged to give priority to patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in its COVID-19 vaccination programme.
The call was jointly made by National Kidney Foundation chairman Datuk Dr Zaki Morad, Malaysian Society of Nephrology president Prof Dr Abdul Halim Abdul Gafor and Malaysian Society of Transplantation president Dr Rosnawati Yahya
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They said this would reduce overcrowding in the Ministry of Health’s haemodialysis (HD) centres and help return some normalcy to HD centres run by private and non-governmental organisations.
They said priority should be given to groups such as patients on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, patients with functioning kidney transplants and patients with CKD stage 3-4 (pre-dialysis).
18 Jan 2021 / 14:05 H.
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 18: Four Terengganu executive councillors’ (exco) offices in Wisma Darul Iman here, are closed for 14 days from yesterday until Jan 30 after five positive COVID-19 cases were found in the building.
State Health Department director, Dr Nor Azimi Yunus said the closures were to enable sanitation works to be carried out in the effort to curb the spread of the pandemic in the area.
The four offices which were closed were those of the State Local Government, Housing, Health and Environment Committee’s office; State Human Development, Dakwah, and Information Committee’s office;
State Agriculture, Food Industries, Plantations, Commodities and Rural Development’s office and the State Syariah Implementation, Education and Higher Education’s office.