Defence minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the armed forces has the kind of vehicles needed for the poor road conditions in the interior.

“If possible, we do not want to bring the communities from the interior areas out to the city. Instead, we will go to their villages. In some places in the interior, there may not be any access to get to their areas. So we’ll bring nurses and doctors to them.

“If there is no access at all, we will use helicopters, set up tents at their villages and administer the shots,” he told reporters after visiting the army drive-through vaccination centre (PPV) at the Sungai Besi Perdana Camp, here, today.

Also present were health minister Dr Adham Baba and Chief of Defence Force Gen Affendi Buang.

Meanwhile, Adham said the government was committed to expanding the services of existing PPVs to include drive-through vaccinations as it was cheaper, more orderly and convenient.

He said the country was now in Phase 2 of the vaccination programme, with a vaccine stock of seven million doses in June and 14 million in July.

“For the second phase, we are diversifying the PPVs, not only at health clinics, hospitals, halls or business centres. We want to further expand vaccinations via the drive-through method like the one conducted by the armed forces,” he said.