KUALA LUMPUR: The Special Committee on Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee (JKJAV) will meet next week to decide on regulations for private sale of Covid-19 vaccines.
Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme (NIP) coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin said among the decisions include setting a ceiling price for the vaccines.
"The government had previously agreed to allow the private sector to sell Covid-19 vaccines once the federal government received an adequate stock of vaccines.
"Starting August, pharmaceutical companies with access to Covid-19 vaccines will be able to offer private sales," he said in a joint virtual press conference with Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba today.
Khairy also stressed that the Sinovac vaccine will continue to be administered in the country's vaccination exercise.
The Sinovac vaccine, he said, will be distributed in relatively smaller amounts because the vaccine supply has been fully delivered to the federal government.
On July 21, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said Pharmaniaga Bhd will be selling 14 million doses of Sinovac vaccines to interested states and private companies from this month until September.