PETALING JAYA: A total of 312,390 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines will be flown in as the first shipment, says Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pic). “There, it will be sorted and sent to various vaccine storage sites around the country, ” Khairy wrote on Twitter. Earlier, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that the first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the country on Feb 21. "This is the meaning of the slogan of the immunisation programme - protect yourself, protect all," he said. He said the positive impact would be felt when everyone was protected and the immunisation programme was rolled out.

Source: The Star February 16, 2021 02:55 UTC