COVID-19 | Putrajaya has agreed to obtain an additional 12.2 million supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after Health Minister Dr Adham Baba signed a manufacturing and supply agreement with Pfizer Malaysia today.
With the additional 12.2 million vaccine doses which the government has agreed to obtain, Malaysia now has a total of 25 million vaccine doses which will be able to cover 39 percent of the country's population in 2021.
Meanwhile, the agreement signed today involves the procurement of the initial 12,799,800 vaccine doses which will be supplied starting the end of February.
That supply will be able to cover 20 percent of the population with two doses per person, said the Health Ministry in a statement after the signing ceremony today.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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