Prime Minister Muhyiddin has officially been inoculated Pfizer vaccine and being the first recipient for National Covid-19 immunisation program.

Apart from Muhyiddin, the Health Director General, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, and four other staff of the Ministry of Health also been vaccinated at Precint 11 Clinic, Putrajaya.

Scheduled to start 1 March, the first phase of the rollout program will see more than 500,000 frontliners from healthcare and medical personnel as well as member from security sectors to receive the vaccine.

The second phase of the program will start from April to August with the senior citizen and high-risk group with morbidity issues to be vaccinated followed by public.

Meanwhile, many states are making preparation to begin the rollout which includes setting up the storage facilities and establishing large vaccination centre includes stadium, conference centre, hall that would enable more people to be inoculated at one time to expedite the process.

In addition, Khairy Jamaluddin, the program immunisation coordinator minister said they are confident the program may complete by the end of the year, ahead from the expect date of completion February 2022, if the vaccine arrives followed the agreement timeline.