PETALING JAYA: Health minister Khairy Jamaluddin has revealed that over two million Sinovac vaccine recipients in the country will lose their “fully vaccinated” status if they fail to get their booster shots by next week.
He said the health ministry has reported that a total of 2.09 million people who received Sinovac as their primary vaccine had not received their booster dose.
“According to our projection, some two million Sinovac primary recipients are at risk of losing their ‘fully vaccinated’ status on April 1,” he said in a press conference this evening.
The deadline to get a booster jab for the Sinovac recipients was originally set for Feb 28 but was pushed back a month to March 31.
He warned that if these recipients lose their “fully vaccinated” status, it would be hard for them to travel abroad.