Malaysia's health minister has said that the country will stop administering the Covid-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac once its supplies end, as it has a sufficient number of other vaccines for its programme.

Malaysia will increasingly use the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger ribonucleic acid vaccines, Health Minister Adham Baba told a news conference.

Reuters reports that Malaysia has secured 12 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine so far, enough to cover 18.75 per cent of the population.

People receive doses of the Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus in a vaccination truck in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 12. — Reuters
People receive doses of the Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus in a vaccination truck in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 12. — Reuters

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