{"id":144865,"date":"2021-09-19T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T07:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144865"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T07:47:27","slug":"msian-government-agrees-to-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-high-risk-groups-given-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144865","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sian Government Agrees To COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots, High-risk Groups Given Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Malaysian government has agreed to administer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots as part of efforts to increase protection among vulnerable groups against the deadly virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said priority will be given to high-risk groups such as healthcare frontliners and immunocompromised patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides these two categories, he said senior citizens with comorbidities and individuals who work or stay at long-term care facilities will also be given priority for the booster shots, adding that they will be administered once the adult population vaccination rate nationwide has surpassed 80 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis third (booster) dose will improve immunity levels among high-risk groups against COVID-19 infection as it (immunity level) could decrease after the second dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor this, a panel of medical and health experts is developing guidelines to administer these booster shots,\u201d he said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismail Sabri said details on the COVID-19 booster shot exercise will be announced by Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Malaysian government has agreed to administer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots as part of efforts to increase protection among vulnerable groups against the deadly virus. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said priority will be given to high-risk groups such as healthcare frontliners and immunocompromised patients. Besides these two categories, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":122790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}