Menteri besar Saarani Mohamad said the state Covid-19 immunisation task force had identified the Indera Mulia Stadium here and the Bulatan Sultan Azlan Shah in Bandar Meru Raya for the drive-through vaccination centre (PPV) initiative.
“This initiative was started in Kinta as the district has the highest population in Perak.
“The state government is confident that it will help to increase the rate of vaccination by between 800 and 1,500 a day, besides reducing congestion in the existing PPVs,” he said during a virtual press conference today.
He said the drive-through PPV initiative was among several undertaken by the state government to increase the level of preparedness by focusing on vaccinating the people to achieve herd immunity immediately.
These drive-through PPVs will also be implemented in other districts in stages.
Saarani said the state government had set a target of 15,000 daily jabs in Perak this month compared with the average of 8,000 daily shots last month.
This will enable the second phase of the immunisation programme to be completed soon and enable the third phase to begin.
Saarani said that since transport was one of the reasons why vaccine recipients were not keeping their appointments, the state government had provided more than 80 types of vehicles to ferry 1,000 people a day to the PPVs.
“This initiative will facilitate and help alleviate the difficulties faced by the public, especially those with transportation difficulties and also persons with disabilities (PwD),” he said.
According to Saarani, 2,270 recipients who need special access services had been vaccinated through the “outreach” programme initiative until June 1 by a mobile team that visited nursing homes and special care homes.
Under this outreach programme, door-to-door vaccinations for the elderly and PwD, including those in rural areas, would begin after this.
The state government, Saarani said, had also agreed to implement a targeted RTK Antigen screening test programme according to the locality of Covid-19 transmission hotspots, based on the state health department’s (JKN) data analysis.
This, he added, would help them identify individuals who are Covid-19 positive but are asymptomatic. This will enable early detection and treatment to be carried out.
Saarani also welcomed the federal government’s decision to allow Pharmaniaga Bhd to supply seven million doses of the Sinovac vaccine to private companies, government-linked companies and state governments.
He said the state government had also asked the Perak State Development Corporation, through its subsidiary Majuperak Holdings Bhd, to directly purchase vaccine supplies from Pharmaniaga.
He also urged people in the state to register for vaccination. So far, only 889,680 individuals or 46% of the state’s 1.86 million population eligible to be vaccinated, had registered for their vaccine jabs.
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