{"id":40665,"date":"2022-01-29T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therfiles.com\/?p=40665"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T08:08:37","slug":"covid19-vaccination-malaysia-program-registration-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therfiles.com\/covid19-vaccination-malaysia-program-registration-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid19 Vaccination Malaysia Program, Registration, Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
The COVID-19 vaccine will be given for free to all residents of Malaysia.<\/p>
MySejahtera: (a) Registration and Hotline<\/a> (a) Appointment<\/a> (b) Choose Type of Vaccine (c) Dependents (d) Update MySejahtera Digital Cert<\/a><\/p> List of PPV for Walk in and Appointment – Vaccination Centres in Klang Valley<\/a> | Penang<\/a> | Johor<\/a><\/p> * Herd Immunity Target is set at 80% population vaccinated.<\/p> As of 10 Dec 2021, according to covidnow.moh.gov.my<\/a><\/p> Estimated Population of Malaysia in 2020:<\/a> 32.657 million people with 23.4 million adults according to Department of Statistics Malaysia<\/p> On 20 Jan 2021, then Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin was appointed as the Coordinating Minister for the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to lead the COVID-19 Immunisation Special Task Force (CITF) under the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV).<\/p> As of February 2021, Malaysia has secured 66.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility and advance purchases from five vaccine manufacturers. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has obtained conditional approval from the Drug Control Authority (DCA) and the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) of Malaysia on the 8th of January 2021. Both AstraZeneca and Sinovac have been approved in March 2021.<\/p> The remaining COVID-19 vaccine candidates are still pending approval. To understand more about the available vaccines type, efficacy, trial results, approval, adverse reactions, etc. click on this link<\/a>.<\/p> Source: vaksincovid.gov.my<\/em><\/p> vaksincovid.gov.my<\/p> [ImmunisationProgram<\/a>]<\/p> Frontliners: healthcare personnel, essential services, defence and security personnel<\/p> Priority group 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p> Remainder of healthcare workers as well as those in essential services and defense and security personnel<\/p> Priority group 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p> Senior citizens (those aged 60 and over), high-risk group with chronic diseases such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure and people with disabilities (OKU)<\/p> Adult population aged 18 years and above (citizens & non-citizens). Priority will be given to those in the red zones; followed by those in yellow zones and finally those in green zones<\/p> vaksincovid.gov.my<\/p> <\/a><\/p> Registration for the COVID-19 vaccine can be carried out using the following methods:<\/p>Vaccination Progress Update<\/h3>
Walk-in Vaccinations<\/h4>
Approval by Malaysia<\/h3>
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Target groups for the 3 phases of vaccination<\/h3>
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Phase 1 (Feb – Apr 2021) – 500K individuals<\/span><\/h4>
Phase 2 (Apr – Aug 2021) – 9.4 million individuals<\/span><\/h4>
Phase 3 (May 2021 \u2013 Feb 2022) – 13.7 million individuals or more<\/span><\/h4>
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Registration<\/h3>
1. Through the MySejahtera application<\/a><\/h4>