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PETALING JAYA: Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin became the first person in the country to receive the Sinovac anti-Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday (March 18).
Khairy, who is also the coordinating minister of the National Covid-19 Immunization Program, received the vaccine at the Rembau Hospital Vaccination Center in Pedas, Negri Sembilan.
The Rembau deputy had stated that he chose the vaccine made in China to combat “selective vacillation vacillation.”
On February 27, he said he wanted any Covid-19 vaccine approved after Pfizer’s to counter the mindset of people who are hesitant to receive certain vaccines.
“There are those who prefer the Pfizer vaccine and those who really want the Sinovac.
“Some doctors have said that the Sinovac vaccine uses the traditional inactivated virus platform. This is how the old vaccines used to work and that is tried and tested.
“Some have said that the mRNA technology (behind the Pfizer vaccine) is good because the efficacy rate is high.
“These are opinions that we must listen to, but the government’s position is to take whatever vaccine has been approved by the National Drug Regulatory Agency (NPRA).
“That is why I have offered to take whatever vaccine is approved by the NPRA after Pfizer.
“If it is Sinovac, it will be Sinovac. If it is the Russian vaccine, it will be the Russian vaccine. If it’s AstraZeneca’s, that will be it, “he said.
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