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PUTRAJAYA: People who skip the line to receive Covid-19 vaccine injections can be fined no more than RM50,000 or imprisoned for no more than six months, or both, Health Minister Dr. Adham Baba.
He said such action could be taken under Section 31, which is a new provision under the Emergency (Infectious Disease Prevention and Control) (Amendment) Ordinance 2021, which takes effect on March 11.
He said that Section 31 provided for the imposition of sanctions under the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Act of 1988 (Act 342) for any offense not specified in it.
“Regulations made under this new subsection may prescribe any act that contravenes the regulations as a crime and will be subject to a fine not to exceed RM50,000 or imprisonment for a period not to exceed six months or both,” he said.
He said this at a joint press conference with de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan at the Health Ministry here today.
Adham said that, for now, the health ministry had not received any reports of the jump in the queue for Covid-19 vaccine injections.
“So far there have been no reports on this matter, it is just news on social media,” he said.
On Monday, the coordinating minister of the National Covid-19 Immunization Program, Khairy Jamaluddin, said that the government had established “Guidelines for determining the list of front-line persons” to avoid skipping the queue under the Covid-vaccination program 19.
Khairy, who is also the minister for science, technology and innovation, said the decision was made at the meeting of the Special Committee on Guarantee of Access to the Supply of Covid-19 Vaccines in which the guidelines provided details on the leaders.
Khairy said the guidelines had been signed by him and Adham and uploaded to https://www.vaksincovid.gov.my/, with the link also available on the websites of both ministries.
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