He said this was because 36.1% of the eligible population in the state had been vaccinated with at least one dose.

“We still need to vaccinate another 3.9% of the adult population to enable Perlis to move to Phase 3,” he said in a Facebook post yesterday.

One of the threshold indicators for states to progress into Phase 3 is a 40% vaccination rate.

Azlan hoped the people would be patient and pray for the best for the state until the announcement of the federal government.

In this regard, he said, several important decisions on the recovery plan had been made at a virtual National Security Council meeting chaired by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday, and the proposals were expected to be adopted by states in Phase 2.

Perlis is among eight states which have moved to Phase 2 of the recovery plan so far. The other states are Perak, Pahang, Kelantan, Terengganu, Penang, Sabah and Sarawak.