While Covid-19 cases have been on the rise lately, Malaysia’s vaccination rate has also been on turbo mode of late, among the fastest in the world, in fact. It wasn’t long ago that we breached the 200k shots a day mark, but with vaccine supplies coming in thick and fast, we’re now pushing the ceiling everyday – yesterday, over 460k doses were administered. Great job, JKJAV, and keep it up!
Yesterday, health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah cited Labuan as an example, and proceeded to say that daily case numbers might dip below the 1,000 mark in October if the vaccination rate is maintained at 150,000 second doses administered daily. Of yesterday’s 460k total, over 155k were second doses.
You want more good news? The government is now considering loosening restrictions for those who have had two jabs of the vaccine. Prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin hinted yesterday that fully vaccinated people may soon be allowed to travel and dine-in at restaurants. Take a moment to jog the memory and imagine that…
The PM said he had asked JKJAV (Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply), headed by Khairy Jamaluddin, to look into relaxing movement control for the fully vaccinated.
“I think most of the people have received their (vaccine) shots. So, I have asked the JKJAV to look into giving some leeway for those who have completed taking two doses of the vaccine either for travelling or dining at restaurants. This will show that while we are handling the Covid-19, the people’s lives can gradually return to normal,” he said yesterday after inspecting the Bakul Prihatin Negara programme, Bernama reported.
In case you needed reminding, most of Selangor and some other areas are currently under the enhanced movement control order (EMCO), but full nationwide lockdown (FMCO) started on June 1, and we haven’t been able to cross state and district borders since May 10. Here’s hoping that the momentum of the vaccination drive wins the duel against the rising infection rates. In the meantime, stay home, stay safe.
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gov doesnt care already
Is it? Then why did they bother vaccinate 9million rakyat and counting? They could have been like EURO2020 nation countries and let the rakyat gather in huge groups without facemask or social distancing.
460,158 vaccines given on 15 Jul
434,828 vaccines given on 14 Jul
424,541 vaccines given on 13 Jul
421,479 vaccines given on 12 Jul
324,970 vaccines given on 11 Jul
309,694 vaccines given on 10 Jul
295,225 vaccines given on 9 Jul
278,954 vaccines given on 8 Jul
Gove doesnt care? Really???
Please use his real name. Mahiaddin
Doesn’t matter if you call it a black cat or white cat as long it catches all the rats, it is a good cat.
Great job, gomen! Yesterday 13,125 kes tertinggi… so we can open more. Syabass!
I think this is a great idea! Its much inline with the global measures to handle living with covid and it helps to incentivise more people to get vaccinated. Far better than some countries daft effort to them into a raffle with a chance to win a chicken. WTH!
Hello Mr PM. Solve the daily 5-figure covid19 cases first la. Dine-in isn’t the point here.
Never in this world a country declared “Emergency” to fight COVID, but end up having COVID infection cases doubles, triple, etc.
Ehem. Britain is taking umbrage for not being considered “in this world”. After all, Britannia rules the covid wave.
Brother, even after all Malaysian got their vaccine the infection figure wont be zero or 4 digit or 3 digit.
If we properly track the infection figure after full vaccine, it will still be high. Then want to blame gomen again for giving ineffective vaccine?
Hopefully this plan can be carried out ASAP
I missed interstate travel so much !!!
Actually it’s not adviced. As we all know, the virus doesn’t die off on non-living things and it can actually survive a few days which is highly unusual of virus, usually seen on bacteria, so it can be brought back with interstate travel. Surely not a good idea.