Rural development minister Abdul Latiff Ahmad said each mobile PPV had nine vaccination counters, including one for the disabled folks, and could vaccinate 120 people per hour.

“On a trial basis, two Mara Liner mobile PPVs will leave for Sungai Siput in Perak this Saturday to help vaccinate the Orang Asli in a number of villages in the area. Perak has the biggest number of Orang Asli, besides Pahang,” he told reporters after viewing the mobile PPVs at the Mara Liner depot in Batu Muda, near here, today.

Abdul Latiff said the mobile PPV operations also involved the setting up of counters for confirmation, registration and consultation, as well as vaccine recipient observation under tents erected next to the mobile units.

All the counters were set up in line with the conditions set by the health ministry, he added.

Abdul Latiff said each of the Mara Liner mobile PPV would be manned by two doctors and nurses from Uni Klink, a chain of clinics established through a programme under Mara, while the vaccine supply would come from the health ministry.

He said the PPVs would be giving the vaccine to the rural communities regardless whether they had registered for vaccination through the MySejahtera application or not.

He added that his ministry was committed to ensuring that rural communities had access to the Covid-19 vaccine.

Abdul Latiff also said that to date, out of the 206,000 Orang Asli in the peninsula, 28,143 had agreed to receive the vaccine.