Malaysia sees light at end of coronavirus tunnel as vaccine roll-out success lifts gloom


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After 150 days in operation, one of Malaysia ’s biggest Covid-19 vaccination centres shut its doors on Sunday, with over 1.2 million doses having been administered there. At its peak, the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur – the country’s first mega Pusat Pemberian Vaksin (PPV or vaccination centre) was seeing some 18,000 doses administered daily. Vaccine tsar and health minister Khairy Jamaluddin wrote on Twitter that the centre was the “biggest workhorse” in the country’s national vaccination programme. The PPV’s closure is the latest indication of how far Malaysia’s vaccination programme has come, after teething problems earlier in the year...