Kelantan govt wants 1m vaccines before monsoon season

The Kelantan state government is appealing to the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Mosti) to approve the state’s request for one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines before the onset of the monsoon season in October.

Menteri Besar Ahmad Yakob said they were worried about people in the state not getting appropriate protection from the virus during the monsoon season if 80 percent of its population could not be vaccinated as targeted.

He said so far, over 28.1 percent of Kelantan’s population...