Malaysia Buys 18.9M More Pfizer + Sinovac Vaccine Doses!

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Malaysia just purchased 18.9 million more vaccine doses from Pfizer and Sinovac! Here are the details!

 

Malaysia Buys 18.9M More Pfizer + Sinovac Vaccine Doses!

On 22 March 2021, the Malaysia Minister of Health, Dato’ Sri Dr. Adham Baba signed agreements with Pfizer and Sinovac to purchase additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccines :

  • Pfizer-BioNTech COMIRNATY : 6.9 million additional doses
  • Sinovac CoronaVac : 12 million additional doses

This would make the COMIRNATY and CoronaVac vaccines the lynchpin of Malaysia’s COVID-19 vaccination programme!

Malaysia Buys 18.9M More Pfizer + Sinovac Vaccine Doses!

 

Malaysia’s Vaccine Plan With Additional Pfizer + Sinovac Vaccines!

With these additional purchases, Malaysia now has more than enough vaccines to vaccinate its entire adult population.

This is the new mix of COVID-19 vaccines that Malaysia has ordered so far :

That is enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunise up to 34.35 million people – roughly 107% of the adult population in Malaysia.

This does not mean that there are excess vaccine doses, because Malaysia has also committed to vaccinating foreign residents in Malaysia.

And there will come a time when children may also be vaccinated against COVID-19.

 

Pfizer + Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccines : A Quick Primer

The Pfizer COMIRNATY vaccine (BNT162b2) is an mRNA-based vaccine designed by BioNTech.

Unlike more traditional methods of using dead particles, or attenuated viruses, the mRNA vaccine teaches your cells to create proteins that mimic the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thereby triggering an immune response.

Recommended : Pfizer + Moderna mRNA Vaccines : How Do They Work?

The Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, branded CoronaVac, is an inactivated virus vaccine.

It uses actual SARS-CoV-2 virus grown in Vero cells, and then killed using β-propiolactone.

Once injected into the body, the antigens on the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus triggers the body’s immune system.

Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, CoronaVac only needs to be refrigerated at 2–8 °C (36–46 °F), which makes it easy to distribute.

Recommended : CoronaVac Vaccine By Sinovac : Your Questions Answered!

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