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KUALA LUMPUR: While there is a rumor about the arrival of the vaccine, now there are also questions about the 256,678 people who have recovered from the infections. Will they also need vaccinations?
The Ministry of Health (MOH) says it will assess the need for these patients to receive the vaccine, said Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Noor Hisham said that the antibodies generated by former patients who experienced level one to level three infection with mild or no symptoms might not be enough to fight the virus, therefore they may need to be vaccinated.
“If the infection were at level four or five, the antibodies generated would be more permanent and higher, but we will evaluate the matter,” he told Bernama here today.
Malaysia’s largest vaccination exercise, known as the National Covid-19 Vaccination Program, begins tomorrow, two days ahead of schedule.
Noor Hisham will be among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin at a ceremony to launch the program.
Meanwhile, Noor Hisham said that the launch of the program would also mark the beginning of the end of the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the country, with protection from within through vaccination.
He said this would be in addition to external protection through compliance with all preventive and public health control measures, as well as compliance with standard operating procedures.
Muhyiddin is scheduled to receive the first injection of the vaccine at the Putrajaya district health office at Presint 11 at 3pm tomorrow. He will be followed by a ministry health worker, Noor Hisham, and another member of the ministry staff.
Recipients will receive two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, with the second dose administered 21 days after the first injection.
