Health workers pose for pictures after receiving the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the KPJ Selangor Specialist Hospital in Shah Alam May 25, 2021. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The government is studying the possibility of legal action against those trying to dissuade Malaysians from taking part in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
He told national news agency Bernama that such groups would frustrate the government’s aim of achieving herd immunity against Covid-19 through vaccinations.
“According to our plans, I hope we can expedite vaccinations, but what is important is that there should be no people who say no to being vaccinated.
“We don’t want half of us to be vaccinated while another section has not been vaccinated, because this will affect (the overall country),” he told Bernama.
The prime minister added that he has also directed the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) to prepare for contingencies in which the registration rate for the vaccination falls short of the 80 per cent needed for herd immunity.
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