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Kelantan health department plans to combine PPVs

KOTA BARU: The health department is planning to combine 'unpopular' Covid-19 vaccination centres (PPV) to facilitate vaccine distribution in the state.

State health director Datuk Dr Zaini Hussin said the move was necessary following a decline in the number of vaccine recipients visiting certain centres of late.

He added the move would be taken as soon as the department completed their study on the matter.

"With this 'mopping up' exercise, we expect the number of PPVs in the state will be reduced by half.

"The move will also make it easy for us to continue with the vaccination programmes," he added.

It is learnt that more than 40 PPVs were set up state-wide to assist the department in the exercise.

However, the number of vaccine recipients who visited these centres had slowly dropped recently as many locals have already received their vaccine jabs.

As of yesterday, the state vaccination rate had reached more than 70 percent.

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