PARLIAMENT | The deadline extension for Sinovac recipients aged 18 and above and senior citizens aged 60 and above to obtain their booster dose until March 31 has nothing to do with the Johor state election, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
He said the extension was to give time to the two groups to complete their booster dose injections as many of them still had not received the dose.
“There are also many requests from this group to extend the period for them to take this booster dose. This is the last extension, it is final, and if by March 31 they still do not take the booster dose, their vaccine status will be changed to ‘incomplete’,” he said during a question and answer session at the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.
He said this in his reply to a question from Dzulkefly Ahmad (Pakatan Harapan-Kuala Selangor) who wanted to know whether the reason for the extension of the booster dose for the two groups until March 31 had anything to do with the Johor polls.
Meanwhile, Khairy said the move to open the vaccination centre (PPV) on a walk-in basis and provide booster dose vaccine options was aimed at helping to increase the number of booster dose recipients in the country.
- Bernama
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