Over 600,000 Have registered the Covid-19 Vaccine through the MySejahtera App
As of 9pm on 23 February, at total of 637,000 people have registered in getting the Covid-19 vaccine through the MySejahtera app and the registration were opened since Tuesday after the app was updated on Google Play Store, Apple App Store and Huawei AppGallery.
According to the Senior Assistant Director-General of Disease Control Division at the Ministry of Health (MoH) Dr Mahesh Appannan. He added that there are currently nearly 21 million unique active users and it records 18-20 million check-ins daily.
The MySejahtera also allows individuals registration of account holders for the vaccine and if you have elderly parents the app will sometimes be updated in mid-March for registration of dependents. The national COVID-19 immunisation programme has officially started yesterday, 24th February ahead of schedule. At the moment, the programme is currently in Phase 1 which will cover a total of 500,000 frontliners. Malaysia aims to complete the immunisation by end of this year, provided that the vaccine supplies can arrive on schedule and Malaysia achieves a peak vaccination rate of up to 160,000 people per day.
(LATEST UPDATE: 26th Feb 2021)
PETALING JAYA: A million people have registered for the Covid-19 vaccine via the MySejahtera app, says Khairy Jamaluddin
The Science, Technology and Innovation Minister tweeted the figure on Friday (Feb 26), adding that more frontliners are also receiving their jabs.
One million people have registered for their COVID-19 vaccine on MySejahtera. More frontliners are receiving their jabs. It’s safe, it’s effective. Let’s end the pandemic. Take the vaccine. Register today. #LindungDiriLindungSemua
— Khairy Jamaluddin 🇲🇾🌺 (@Khairykj) February 26, 2021
“It’s safe, it’s effective, ” Khairy tweeted.
The number of registrations is still increasing rapidly after the mass vaccination programme officially kicked off on Wednesday (Feb 24).
Even with the encouraging numbers, Khairy is still urging Malaysians to get registered to receive their Covid-19 jab on the MySejahtera app.
“Let’s end the pandemic. Take the vaccine. Register today, ” he said, adding the hashtag #LindungDiriLindungSemua (protect yourself, protect others).
In a separate tweet, he added that the long-term effects of contracting the Covid-19 virus is one of the reasons Malaysians should get vaccinated.
“The perception that ‘I’m healthy, I wouldn’t die if I get Covid’ doesn’t take into account the terrible effects of long Covid, ” he said.