Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has called on parents to take the opportunity to protect their children from the Covid-19 outbreak as the registration for the first dose under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) will be closed on May 15, a mere eight days away.
“Take the opportunity to protect your children from Covid-19, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and other complications due to infection.
"More than 1.5 million children have been vaccinated (with Covid-19 vaccine) in Malaysia. It is proven safe!” he posted on his Twitter account on Saturday (May 7).
According to the COVIDNOW website on Saturday a total of 1,542,513 or 43.4% of children aged between five and 11 have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as of Friday.