As previously announced, @JKJAVMY is offering an opt-in choice for people who want to take the AstraZeneca vaccine. Bookings will be open tomorrow, 2 May 1200hrs at vaksincovid.gov.my You already need to be registered & will simply just need to pick a PPV & date.
Once you have picked a PPV and date, you will be notified of your vaccination time on MySJ or via sms. The PPVs designated for AZ are: UM, UKM, World Trade Centre KL and IDCC Shah Alam.
This is the only way to opt-in for AZ. News about certain hospitals taking bookings for the AZ vaccine are untrue.
This AZ opt-in is open to 268,000 people initially on a first click, first served basis in the website for KL & Selangor residents. If successful, @JKJAVMY will roll out to other states pending further deliveries of AZ.
First appointments will be on Wednesday 5 May.
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2/ The vaccines are:
i) AstraZeneca manufactured by Medimmune Pharma in Netherlands;
ii) Coronavac manufactured by Sinovac in China,
iii) COMIRNATY (Pfizer) manufactured by BioNTech in Germany.
3/ As announced before all these vaccines are part of Malaysia’s portfolio. So, in general, this announcement is most welcome and will potentially add to our supply of COVID-19 vaccines. To manage expectations, I would like to add a few observations.
With the COVAX facility & Pfizer deal we now have doses for 30% of our population. @DrAdhamBaba and I are working hard to close further deals to secure doses up to 70% of our population (preliminary target for herd immunity).
PM @MuhyiddinYassin has also announced that the COVID-19 vaccine that the government procures will be FREE for Malaysians.
Dengan pelaksanaan PKPB, sangat penting kita mempunyai kebolehan untuk melaksanakan pengesahan kontak rapat & contact tracing. MyTrace dibangunkan untuk melaksanakan pengesahan kontak rapat melalui teknologi Bluetooth.
Data kontak rapat disimpan dalam telefon pengguna selama 21 hari secara anonymised. Data geo-lokasi tidak dikesan atau dikumpul. Jika ada kes positif, KKM akan hubungi semua kontak rapat dari data MyTrace dalam telefon pengguna tersebut.
Pakej Rangsangan Ekonomi Rakyat (PRIHATIN) merupakan usaha kerajaan untuk melindungi rakyat & menyokong para peniaga & pekerja yang menjadi tulang belakang ekonomi rakyat.
Nilai pakej ini adalah RM250bn (17% drpd KDNK) berbanding RM67bn yang diumum untuk menangani krisis kewangan pada tahun 2009.
Suntikan fiskal dari kerajaan RM25bn yang baki adalah nilai simpanan dan perkhidmatan yang dapat digunapaki atas keputusan dan rundingan kerajaan (contoh moratorium bank hasil dari rundingan BNM & bank2 atas permintaan kerajaan).
: @MOFmalaysia has announced its B40 health coverage scheme will come into affect 1 Jan. Recipients will be covered up to RM8k for 36 types of critical illnesses. The fund to pay for this scheme will begin at RM2bn. I debated this matter in Parliament.
Specifically I wanted to find out how the government was paying for this. Would the government be paying certain insurers the premium for the B40 recipients? Turns out the initial RM2bn is a quid pro quo arrangement with Great Eastern, a Singaporean insurer.
Under the 2009 Liberalisation of the Financial Services, there was a 70 per cent cap on foreign insurers owning local insurance businesses in Malaysia. That meant insurers like GE, Tokio Marine, Zurich had to sell off 30 per cent of their Malaysian business to locals.
A serious allegation was made against the previous government yesterday in Parliament regarding unpaid GST input tax claims. Minister of Finance said RM19bn was misappropriated and therefore not paid back to businesses who had made claims on their input tax.
I made two points. 1) I asked of the RM19bn unpaid input tax claims, how many were because of non compliance with GST regulations, how many the subject of ongoing customs audits and how many unpaid because of “misappropriation”? We have to be clear about the details.
After waffling for a bit about the missing amounts being “certified” Finance Minister finally admitted he did not have a detailed breakdown of why input tax claims were not paid.