First batch of Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Sabah

First batch of Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Sabah

First of six batches are meant for the vaccination of over 40,000 frontliners.

Sabah local government and housing minister Masidi Manjun (third right) and other state VIPs receiving the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines for the state in Kota Kinabalu today.
KOTA KINABALU:
Sabah received its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine today, with a consignment of 16,380 doses arriving on a Raya Airways flight from Kuala Lumpur at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport, terminal 2 at 12.40pm.

State local government and housing minister Masidi Manjun said this was the first of six batches of the 104,130 vaccine shots Sabah is set to receive. These are meant for the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, involving the vaccination of frontliners.

“The first three individuals to officially receive this vaccine will be chief minister Hajiji Noor, Sabah health director Dr Christina Rundi who is our chief frontliner and state police commissioner Hazani Ghazali,” he told reporters here.

The last package of vaccines is scheduled to arrive on Apr 1, he said, adding it will be sufficient to cover the 42,117 frontliners statewide who will receive two doses of the vaccine.

Masidi said the government would update the public on the subsequent phases of the programme.

“We have an estimated three million people in Sabah and we target to immunise every citizen,” he said.

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