KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 10 — Watching her young child playing, 28-year-old Mujahidah Abdul Jalil wondered if she should take the Covid-19 vaccine.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — More than 4,000 Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) health staff are expected to be given priority to receive the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the first phase of the national immunisation programme.

JAKARTA, Jan 7 — Indonesia's highest Muslim clerical council aims to issue a ruling on whether a Covid-19 vaccine is halal, or permissible under Islam, before the country is due to start a mass inoculation programme using a Chinese vaccine next week.

SINGAPORE, Jan 1 — Singapore began vaccinating healthcare workers with Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday (December 30, 2020), kicking off one of Asia's first inoculation programmes against a pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million people globally.