KELANTAN has taken the initiative to open temporary vaccination centres (PPVs) at mosques, surau and pondok to make it easier for the people to get their Covid-19 shots.

State Health Department director Dr Zaini Hussin said six locations have been identified under the vaccination outreach programme and the PPVs will be operating for five days, with a target of administering 400 doses a day at each PPV.

“Although it is implemented in mosques, it is not limited to Muslims only. So far, 600 people have received vaccinations at the temporary PPVs and 10-20% of them are non-Muslims, ” he told reporters after visiting a PPV at the Sultan Ismail Petra Mosque, Kubang Kerian, near Kota Baru, which started operating today.

Zaini said the operation of the temporary PPVs will be extended if there is high demand.

He said vaccine awareness among Kelantanese is getting better and so far, 140,000 of them have received their first dose of vaccine.

On the vaccination outreach programme in rural areas, Zaini said the department will work to ensure that the residents get vaccinated by September, before the start of the monsoon season.

“This is because the weather conditions at the time will make it difficult for health workers to enter the rural areas,” he said. – Bernama, June 13, 2021.