Call to ramp up National Testing Plan

KUCHING: The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) and the Health Ministry (MoH) must ramp up testing in Sarawak as well as quick isolation on top of the current vaccination rollout programme to proper control the surge of positive cases in the state now, stressed Dr Kelvin Yii. The Bandar Kuching MP said that while the […]

Phase 2 of National Recovery Plan highly welcomed by Sarawakians

KUCHING: Sarawak’s shift from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) on Wednesday (July 14) shows that the state’s vaccination rollout is good with over 50,000 doses administered per day, says Datuk Sim Kiang Chiok. The Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developers Association (Sheda) Kuching branch chairman believed that this entry […]

Vaccination rollout in Sarawak a success due to state government’s strong support

KUCHING: The strong support of the state government has contributed to the success and the speed of the vaccination rollout in Sarawak. This was pointed out by the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas after he visited the vaccination centre at the Lundu Civic Centre here today (July 6). “Sarawak […]

Vaccination rollout — commendable but more can be done

KUCHING: Members of the public applaud the efforts done by the state government thus far in providing the Covid-19 vaccines to Sarawakians as quickly as possible. As of June 16, it was reported that the state government has vaccinated 438,621 people or 21.47 percent of Sarawakians who registered for the vaccine. Hence, Chief Minister Datuk […]

Minister wants to see improvement to vaccination rate in Dalat

DALAT: Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah says more needs to be done to improve the current vaccination rate of 6.46 per cent or 674 people from a total of 10,428 in this district who registered. Fatimah, who is also Dalat assemblywoman, said she fully supported the government’s […]