THE Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) has admitted its error in stating that Selangor had received 2.9 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of June 1, when the state only received 615,210 doses.

“The number that was earlier provided to CodeBlue includes both stock in government facilities and partially still in the distributor’s warehouse, which is located in Selangor and ready for distribution to the whole country,’’ CITF was quoted saying by health news website CodeBlue.

“The error in providing the data to CodeBlue is regrettable,” CITF said.

The task force clarified that of the 615,210 doses of vaccines Selangor received, 434,070 were of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; 146,440, the Sinovac vaccine; and 34,700, the AstraZeneca vaccine.

With the correction, Selangor, the country’s most populated state, is still the state receiving the highest number of vaccine doses as of June 1, CITF told CodeBlue today.

Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya have received 578,130 doses of vaccines each and Johor, 370,860 doses.

On Thursday, Selangor’s Public Health, Unity, Women and Family Development Committee chairman Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud disputed CITF’s figure of 2.9 million doses, stressing that the state had only received 615,000 doses. – June 5, 2021.