KUALA LUMPUR: The government will announce a special protection plan to compensate those who experience serious side effects from the Covid-19 vaccination.
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said recipients of the vaccination who experience adverse effects after being inoculated could be protected by a special scheme which includes ex-gratia payments.
"The cabinet has agreed, during a special meeting last week, to provide a special protection scheme, which will be announced at a later date.
"This scheme is for protection and to give an ex-gratia payment to anyone with serious side effects linked directly to the vaccination," he told a press conference after the arrival of the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccines today.
Khairy also said the government would stick to the policy of two doses per person, with an interval of 21 days between injections, as recommended by Pfizer.
The vaccines arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), transported via MAS flight MH604 operated by MABkargo Sdn Bhd (MASKargo) this morning.
The aircraft touched down at 10.07am.
A total 312,390 vaccine doses were flown on a Passenger-to-Cargo (P2C) flight using an Airbus 330-300 aircraft.