Menteri besar Amirudin Shari said 75,000 students and adolescents in the state aged between 12 and 17 would be vaccinated with the cooperation of the state education department, the Selangor Islamic religious department (Jais) and the state health department.

“The Selangor vaccination for adolescents programme, which has been expanded from the Community SelVAX, will target students in religious schools under Jais, Maahad Tahfiz Integrasi Selangor (MITS), Sekolah Rendah Agama Integrasi (SRI) for Year 6 pupils and national schools (SK), including national-type schools (SJK Chinese and Tamil).

“With the 150,000 doses, this means the state government will complete its target for Community SelVAX for the people of Selangor with an estimated 500,000 doses in total,” he said at his weekly media conference today.

Amirudin said the federal government had also been informed of the matter via the national vaccination committee meeting chaired by health minister Khairy Jamaluddin last Tuesday.

“Its implementation has also been approved whereby SelVAX-Adolescent will speed up the vaccination process among adolescents,” he said.

Amirudin said the state government would also issue the schedule for the administration of vaccines under the programme in stages within a week.

“Schools under Jais will be given priority and then we can open it to other primary schools,” he said.

In another development, Amirudin said the state government would, after being briefed and advised by the Selangor legal adviser yesterday, take disciplinary action against civil servants in the state who refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

“The form of action will be decided by the disciplinary committee and is expected to be approved by next week,” he added.