Labuan achieves 90 per cent vaccination rate
Published on: Sunday, July 18, 2021
By: Bernama
LABUAN: Ninety per cent or 62,632 of the adult population of Labuan have been vaccinated as of Saturday (July 17).
Labuan Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) chairman Rithuan Ismail said of the number, 62 per cent or 42,501 have completed their second dose of Covid-19 vaccines.
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“The achievement of getting such a high number of people to get vaccinated is an uneasy task…this is the result of close cooperation from the people at large, the various government agencies and the People’s Representative Councils.
“The opening up of more vaccination centres (PPVs), walk-in and drive-thru methods greatly helped expedite the vaccination exercise,” he told Bernama.
He said the CITF has listed a total of 68, 500 adults on the duty-free island to receive their vaccines, either Pfizer-BioNTech or Sinovac, at five PPVs namely the Labuan Matriculation College hall, Dewan Sri Labuan Public Works Department, Kompleks Darul Kifayah hall, Blok B Taman Perumahan Mutiara multipurpose hall and Foo Chow Hall.
Rithuan also disclosed that of the figure (90 per cent vaccinated), only 9.6 per cent were non-Malaysians.
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