THE Health Ministry would be providing more detailed and granular data on Covid-19 and vaccination starting next week, said Khairy Jamaluddin. 

The newly minted health minister said that the detailed data will be open-source and be made available to the public. 

“A lot of data is already listed openly. 

“Now, the ministry’s work culture will be more towards transparency in response to this pandemic, so that there will not be allegations of secrecy or stonewalling,” Khairy said at his first press conference in Putrajaya. 

Khairy said that the data also would include those who were dead-on-arrival (DOA) cases. 

“Now there is data on those dead-on-arrival cases but we will make it more detailed, as in from which state, age group, how the patient’s condition deteriorated and more,” he said.Meanwhile, Khairy said there were no deaths caused by the Covid-19 vaccines since the start of the vaccine roll-out but added that the ministry received a small number of reports on adverse events following immunisation (AEFI).

“The rate of overall reporting received is 0.53 per 1,000 doses.

“Out of this, 0.04 per 1,000 doses reported were categorised as serious AEFI. Majority of the cases only require a short period of hospitalisation for observation and treatment. 

“No deaths were reported,” he said. – September 1, 2021.