KUALA SELANGOR, April 24 — Selangor Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari yesterday inspected preparations for the opening of the district vaccination centre at the Kuala Selangor Indoor Stadium.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The government yesterday enacted a new emergency law allowing it to use funds derived from oil and gas contributions to pay for vaccine procurement, as it looks to ramp up its Covid-19 vaccination programme.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 — Police have denied allegations that a cop in Kajang had died after receiving her second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine shot.

LONDON, April 15— People infected with Covid-19 are at a higher risk of developing the rare blood clotting known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) than those who get a vaccine against the disease, a study published on Thursday by the University of Oxford, where the AstraZeneca vaccine was developed, said.

SEREMBAN, April 15 — The National Security Council (NSC) has agreed to allow interstate travel for individuals returning to their hometown to bring their dependants or parents to vaccination appointment in the second phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme beginning April 19.

BAGAN SERAI, April 13 — The Health Ministry will not be administering vaccine shots at night throughout the month of Ramadan, says Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali.

SHAH ALAM, April 10 — The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Alhaj and Tengku Permaisuri of Selangor, Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin, completed the second dose of Covid-19 Pfizer BioNTech vaccination at the Shah Alam Hospital here today.

By Khairul Azran Hussin KUALA LANGAT, April 8 — Village chiefs throughout the state are asked to collect information on individuals who have not registered for Covid-19 vaccination in their respective areas. State executive councillor for rural development Borhan Aman Shah said announcements...

SEOUL, April 6 — South Korea has inoculated nearly one million of its population in the 40 days since the country launched its long-awaited Covid-19 vaccination campaign, health authorities here said Tuesday.

By Norrasyidah Arshad SHAH ALAM, April 3 — The Selangor Fatwa Council has ruled that fasting by Muslim will not be invalidated if they receive the Covid-19 vaccine. The Selangor Mufti Dato' Setia Mohd Tamyes Abdul Wahid said the decision was made based on the argument that the jab was not in...

PUTRAJAYA, April 1 — The second phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme will start on April 17 instead of April 19 as previously announced, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — The Malaysian economy is projected to expand between 6.0 per cent and 7.5 per cent in 2021 compared with a contraction of 5.6 per cent in 2020, supported by domestic factors such as consumption and a brighter external environment fuelled by vaccine rollout.

LONDON, March 29 — British business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Tuesday that Britain was focused on vaccinating the whole of its adult population before it would be able to provide surplus shots to others such as Ireland.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 — A total of 129,110 people have completed two doses of Covid-19 vaccine injections under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as of Sunday (March 28).

PUTRAJAYA, March 26 — Sixty eight per cent of Malaysians want to get the Covid-19 vaccine jab based on statistics of the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions) Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof.

KANOWIT, March 23 — Members of the public need to inform the Health Department should they have missed the appointment for their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang.

By Nadiah Zamlus SHAH ALAM, March 22 — The Selangor’ Task Force for Covid-19 (STFC) is ready to help senior citizens in the state to register for the Covid-19 vaccine to ensure that they are not left out of the programme, Sinar Harian reported today. Its chairman Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — KPJ Ampang Puteri is now one of the private hospitals selected as a vaccination centre by the Health Ministry as part of Phase 1 of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

MOSCOW, March 18 — Approximately 10 per cent of people across the globe do not develop an immune response after vaccination, Anna Popova, the head of Russia's public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Wednesday, stressing the importance of shielding the majority of the population from the coronavirus disease.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today said that the enforcement of a blanket movement control order (MCO) may not be needed in the future, thanks to the implementation of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.