Rural folk in Sarawak forgotten, bypassed in vaccination drive


Desmond Davidson

Singa Buas complains about the authorities’ failure to reach out to the people in Long Semadoh regarding the Covid-19 vaccination programme. – The Malaysian Insight pic, April 25, 2021.

THE feeling among the 2,000 people living in this Lun Bawang settlement in Lawas is that they have been forgotten and bypassed in Sarawak’s Covid-19 vaccination programme.

As they get to hear news that phase two of the programme has already been rolled out and people elsewhere are getting the jab to protect them from the deadly virus that has killed 148 people (as of April 23) in Sarawak, they have not even reached first base – getting registered.


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