SOCIAL Welfare Department (JKM) staff, senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PwD) will be vaccinated in the second phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry (KPWKM) today said that the groups are not among first phase recipients of the vaccine as previously stated by its minister, Rina Mohd Harun on Tuesday.

The ministry in a statement said there was a factual error regarding the vaccination phase involving JKM staff, senior citizens and PwD in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

In a statement issued earlier, Rina was reported as saying that a total of 68,003 individuals from the KPWKM target groups would be vaccinated in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

They comprised 48,564 senior citizens who are members of the Senior Citizen Activity Centres and residents of institutions under the ministry’s supervision as well as 19,439 registered persons with disabilities who are also Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme trainees. – Bernama, February 18, 2021.