Works minister Fadillah Yusof said the registration for the vaccination was opened on July 12 with 30,000 slots allocated for the workers in Penang and 25,000, in Johor.

“All slots in Johor have been fully booked, while the registration in Penang is still ongoing as only 22,800 slots have been taken so far.

“The vaccination process will be carried out from Aug 5 until Sept 15,” he said in a statement here today.

He said registration for CIVac was expected to be opened for 20,000 construction workers in Pahang from July 25 and for another 20,000 workers in Sabah from July 31.

Fadillah said Phase One of CIVac began on July 1 in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, targeting 40,000 local and foreign construction workers.

He said that as of July 20, a total of 24,106 or 60.26% of workers registered under the programme had received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

“The ministry is in the midst of applying for more vaccine supply from the national Covid-19 immunisation task force (CITF) to meet the demand from 300,000 construction workers, including for another 65,000 workers in Kuala Lumpur and 30,000 in Selangor.

“The request for the additional quota of the vaccine will continue, based on the current demand from the construction industry.”

He said the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) would also provide a mobile vaccination centre should there be a request for such a facility.

CIVac is the Covid-19 vaccination programme for the workers in the construction industry, which is an initiative by CIDB under the works ministry to speed up the vaccination rate among economic frontliners to reduce Covid-19 infection clusters involving workplaces.

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