18 MoH frontliners receive booster shots
MUKAH: Eighteen frontliners from the Mukah Health Department here yesterday received the Covid-19 vaccine booster shots. Mukah Division health officer Dr Huzaimah Husin was among the frontliners. She explained that the booster shots were meant for all the people, and for this division, they would be given out in stages beginning with the frontliners from the […]
Sarawak ready to roll out booster shots
KUCHING: Sarawak is ready to roll out the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to medical frontliners and high-risk vulnerable persons above the age of 60 in the next few days. Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian said this was with the additional Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines which had arrived recently. “We […]
A public health expert’s view on booster shots
KUCHING: Will booster shots help the public ride through Covid-19 when it is declared endemic? According to public health expert Prof Datuk Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaiman, this depended on the efficacy of the vaccine and the epidemiological pattern — how it spreads and what factors affect the spread in a given population. “Transmission risk is […]
Booster shots should include everyone
KUCHING: Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah welcomes the government’s decision to start administering Covid-19 vaccine booster shots. However, the Sarawak Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family, and Child Development Minister said the shots should also include others in the population besides frontliners and the elderly. “Research has shown that the span of immunity of certain vaccines is […]
Looking forward to the booster shots
By Rachel Mina & Aisyah Azzahra Suhiri KUCHING: The general public is willing to take the Covid-19 booster shots, expected to be administered in October. In the few past weeks, Sarawak has continued to record a high number of daily cases — 5,291 on Sunday (Sept 12), the highest-ever single-day figure since the Covid-19 cases […]
