AS of August 19, 2.2% of the 1.6 million civil servants in Malaysia had yet to register for Covid-19 vaccination.

Public Service Department (PSD) director-general Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman said as a follow-up, PSD would submit the names to the respective department heads to find out the real reasons for further action.

“After we matched the data in the MySejahtera application with the data of civil servants, we found that out of the more than a million civil servants, only 2.2% did not not register on the application for vaccination.

“So we will look into it and try to increase the percentage (of vaccination of civil servants). This is because when more service sectors are opened, they have to go to the office, attendance at the office is mandatory even though vaccination is not yet mandatory so far,” he said.

He told this to reporters after checking on the Community Vaccination Mobilisation Programme organised by the National Unity and the Housing and Local Government Ministries for about 400 people from the Indian community in Port Dickson today.

Commenting further, Khairul said that as of August 19, 74% of civil servants in the country had completed their Covid-19 vaccine schedule while 17.8% had received one dose.

He said that PSD had also asked the Health Ministry to expedite the vaccination of 30,000 civil servants who still did not have an appointment date to be vaccinated before the opening of all economic sectors in the country.

“This is because if we want to open the economic sectors, government services need to be opened first, so we hope those who do not have an appointment date will be vaccinated without delay,” he said.

In the meantime, he also called on all those, especially civil servants, who have not registered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme to do so to ensure the country achieves herd immunity quickly. – Bernama, August 29, 2021.