PENANG Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow has received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Penang Hospital today.
Chow received his jab at the hospital at 12.10pm, together with Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Ahmad Zakiyuddin Abdul Rahman and Deputy Chief Minister II Prof Dr P. Ramasamy.
Penang State Secretary Datuk Abdul Razak Jaafar, state Health Department director Datuk Dr Asmayani Khalib and Penang police chief Comm Datuk Sahabudin Abd Manan were also given the second dose of the vaccine today.
Chow said he felt good after receiving the vaccine, and hoped that there would be no side effects.
He showed his digital certificate on the MySejahtera app after completing the Covid-19 vaccination.
“A total of 444,185 people in Penang have registered themselves to receive the Covid-19 vaccine as of March 21.
“And 28,316 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Penang. A total of 328 people in Penang have taken the second dose as of March 21,” Chow said.
Chow said over 31,000 people in Penang were eligible to receive the vaccine under Phase One of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
“This means that there are about 3,000 people (under Phase One) left who are waiting to receive the first dose of the vaccine,” he said.
Chow said the active Covid-19 clusters in Penang were the Juru Immigration detention centre, and the industry and manufacturing cluster.
“We hope that the Health Ministry will conduct risk assessment on the current situation in Penang.
“We have reiterated many times urging the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) to implement and enforce the Safe@Work guidelines on the factories in the state.
“We hope the Federal Government can consider the request to vaccinate the factory workers first, considering that there are active Covid-19 cases in the manufacturing and industry sectors in Penang,” he said.
Story by Christopher Tan
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Video by Noor Siti Nabilah Noorazis
