The spike came following news of Labuan’s walk-in vaccination exercise (beginning tomorrow), the opening up of five more vaccination centres and the delivery of 30,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines.
On June 1, the number of registrations for the Covid-19 vaccine had stood at 40.8%.
Labuan Covid-19 immunisation task force chairman Rithuan Ismail said the locals were beginning to realise the high risk of not getting vaccinated following the number of new deaths reported on the island.
“We are grateful to note the sudden surge in MySejahtera for the vaccination, we hope the momentum will take the number of registrations to 80% or beyond that, as we want to see people in this federal territory vaccinated against the virus.
“The registration in MySejahtera by Labuan folk was very slow last month, whereas Putrajaya had achieved 100%,” he told Bernama.
Rithuan said the walk-in vaccination process at the newly-opened vaccination centre (PPV) at the Labuan Matriculation College’s Dewan Mutiara would help expedite Labuan’s Covid-19 immunisation programme.
He said the daily inoculation capacity of the two existing vaccination centres at the public works department and Kompleks Darul Kifayah halls currently stood at 1,100 and this would be increased to 5,000 inoculations daily when all five new vaccination centres start operating.
The four other new vaccination centres are the Taman Mutiara health clinic with a capacity of 300 people per day and it would start operating on Monday, while the dates of operation of Dewan Utama of Universiti Malaysia Sabah – Labuan International Campus, the fire and rescue department (Rancha-Rancha station) hall and Labuan rural health clinic would be decided soon.
Meanwhile, Labuan health department director Dr Ismuni Bohari said the drive-thru vaccination would also be implemented at the Medan Selera Labuan and Labuan International Lawn Bowls Arena, and this drive-thru method is only for those receiving their second dose of the vaccine.
Labuan is seeing a downward trend in the number of new Covid-19 cases in the past two days with 97 recorded today.