IPOH (Bernama): Senior citizen Mohd Ghazaly Md Yusoff is beaming with pride after getting his Covid-19 vaccine shot at the newly-opened vaccination centre (PPV) at the Gopeng Community Centre here.

       The 62-year-old has every reason to feel satisfied and pleased after having to cancel his vaccination appointment twice due to transportation problems to get to the previously designated PPV at Kampar Municipal Council Hall, about a half-hour's drive from his house.

       “I live alone and I can’t walk after an accident while doing some grass-cutting work last year.

       “When I found out that a new PPV is being opened just 2km from my house, I quickly asked a friend to bring me here to get vaccinated,” the wheelchair-bound Mohd Ghazaly said when met after getting his jab at the PPV on Wednesday (July 7).

       The PPV is among the two new centres opened in Perak on Tuesday, bringing the total to 22 public PPVs in the state, apart from nine Special PPVs at hospitals and 61 private PPVs.

       Meanwhile in KUALA NERUS, Terengganu, an octogenarian is also breathing a sigh of relief after being vaccinated at the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin PPV.

       Zalillah Muda, 85, could not be happier as she was vaccinated together with her sister Aminah, 80.

       “Alhamdulillah, I’m so happy to receive the vaccine together with Aminah because we promised each other to go together if we get the same vaccination date.

       “We have been close since we were little... we go everywhere together, to wedding receptions, visiting relatives and even going to polling centres to vote,” she said.

       The two sisters, who required wheelchairs when they arrived at the PPV, stayed calm during the entire vaccination process. – Bernama