In a statement, she said the Selangor Health Department had only received 615,000 vaccine doses as of June 1, with 425,970 jabs already administered.

She said the department had told her that the number of vaccines Selangor had received so far was insufficient to meet needs.

“There is no issue of Selangor receiving 2.9 million doses of vaccines. It is also impossible for Selangor to have an excess of 2.5 million unused doses.

“Selangor has the capacity to administer more jabs a day than we are doing now.

“However, we cannot mobilise vaccination centres to their maximum capacity as Selangor has only received a limited number of vaccines.”

Siti Mariah called for greater transparency in the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme “with more accurate and up-to-date information”.

She said the distribution of vaccines was fully handled by the health ministry, with the supply allocated to the respective state health departments.

The vaccines are then channelled to the department’s pharmaceutical division before being distributed to health district offices and vaccination centres.

Siti Mariah was responding to a report by health news portal Code Blue, which said Putrajaya had delivered 2.9 million vaccine doses to Selangor but only 400,000 jabs had been administered as of May 30.

Citing data from the science, technology and innovation ministry, Code Blue said 2.5 million vaccine doses had yet to be administered to recipients.

Siti Mariah expressed scepticism over the ministry’s data used in the report, pointing out that the figures there showed that some states had been given more vaccines than they had actually received.

“This shows that the data released is inaccurate and very confusing.”

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