16 million vaccine doses to arrive by July

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia will receive nearly 16 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses by July, says vaccine minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

At a press conference, Khairy said this included 12 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine, 2.2 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and 1.2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Khairy said the 2.2 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is among the 12.8 million doses the government had just bought from the pharmaceutical giant.

With the vaccines here, Khairy said the vaccination rate is expected to increase to 150,000 injections a day by next month.-FMT