ALOR GAJAH: It took almost a week for family members to persuade 92-year-old Puchat Lubak, believed to be the oldest resident in the Bukit Payung Orang Asli Village, to finally agree to be given the Covid-19 vaccine. She received her jab at a mobile vaccination centre which went to the village yesterday. “The injection is not painful at all,” she said in the dialect of the Temuan Orang Asli tribe, translated by Asiah. Asiah explained that she and other family members took almost a week to get Puchat to agree to the vaccination. A total of 314 Orang Asli in the village received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme at the Mara Liner mobile vaccination centre.

Source: The Star July 07, 2021 23:37 UTC