Thread by @boosulyn

There is only ONE manufacturing site for Malaysia’s Sinovac vaccine supply from 🇨🇳.

Even if state govts can get 100 distributors pun, they can only go to that one place which Putrajaya is already ordering from.

State govts can try to get Moderna, but still needs NPRA approval.

https://twitter.com/drjasonleong/status/1397445527466246151

Malaysians should realize that it’s really very difficult to get Covid vaccines, you can’t get it like Panadol from any drug store.

Countries don’t get their vax orders in a single shipment. It’s staggered over months coz the whole world is ordering the vaccines.

Geopolitics is not abstract, it has actual consequences.

Read / watch on what’s happening in other countries and regions re vaccines.

Many countries inevitably end up behind those with their own manufacturing capacity on the vaccine queue.

We can’t do much with low supply. And there’s no way to go around it unless NPRA approves more vaccines beyond Pfizer, AZ and Sinovac.

But supply from any additional vaccine approved by NPRA may still take time to come in.

I’m cautiously optimistic that Malaysia will receive more vaccine doses over the next few weeks, as long as manufacturers fulfill their commitments to Malaysia instead of giving us the turnaround.

In the meantime, @JKJAVMY can think of setting up multiple PPVs in the community.