MRCS board member Suhana Sidik said it would use various networks to gather this information before presenting it to the government, adding that it has been pushing for as many of them as possible to be fully vaccinated by the end of the year.

She said Malaysia is very close to fully vaccinating all adult undocumented and documented migrants and refugees living here, adding that their final assessment will show the actual figures.

“Most of them were taken care of by the health ministry at its vaccination centres, before we joined in to help speed up the process and complete it by the end of the year,” she said.

“We are working very closely with NGOs and community leaders to organise migrant and refugee communities to come to vaccination centres every day of the week.”.

MRCS is currently doing this in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Penang, Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu.

“We will be working with the Malaysian Relief Agency very soon to commence in Kedah and we are providing support for adolescent vaccinations in Sarawak,” she said, explaining that it had started its Mobile Vaccination for Migrants programme on Sept 4.

“MRCS was the first wholly humanitarian organisation that was mandated by the ministry to vaccinate undocumented and documented migrant workers and refugees and stateless persons in the country,” she said.