Zaliha said ministry officials will be meeting the pharmaceutical company in a few weeks’ time to settle the matter.

“Hopefully, we will get the vaccine as early as possible,” she said during a press conference after officiating KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital’s World Cancer Day event today.

Earlier this year, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said stocks of Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine were expected to arrive in Malaysia by the end of January.

He said the vaccine was supposed to have arrived last December.

Zaliha had also said an announcement will be made after the supply is received along with detailed eligibility criteria.

The bivalent vaccine was granted conditional approval by the Drug Control Authority in December.