The Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) has agreed to the Education Ministry’s (MOE) proposal that students sitting for major examinations this year be given the priority to be vaccinated.
Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said this comes after the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency’s (NPRA) approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 and above.
“As for the teachers, over 90,000 individuals have received at least one dose of the vaccine shot so far. The MOE is always committed to strive for the best,” he said on his Facebook page yesterday.
Radzi also shared a short video clip in which National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin explained the matter.
Khairy was speaking at a virtual discussion titled “The Path to Herd Immunity: Up Close with YB Khairy Jamaluddin” organised by The Oxford & Cambridge Society Malaysia on Wednesday night.
The science, technology and innovation minister said according to the data from MOE, there are 357,000 Form Five students and 47,000 Form Five teachers nationwide.
“Kids who are sitting for public exams really need to get back to school to prepare for the exams. We are working out something with the MOE to focus on exam years first, to inoculate both the teachers and support staff at schools as well as exam-year students,” Khairy said in the discussion.
The discussion was also uploaded on YouTube.
- Bernama
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