PUTRAJAYA: Walk-ins for Covid-19 vaccination in the Klang Valley will be stopped from Sept 15, says Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

       The Science, Technology and Innovation Minister said Klang Valley residents who have not received their Covid-19 vaccination can get their jabs at selected health clinics from Sept 16.

       “The number of people who have yet to be vaccinated in the Klang Valley is very small, and you can see this from the small number of attendees at PPVs (vaccination centres) recently.

       “Taking this into consideration, I would like to announce that the walk-in programme in Klang Valley will be stopped from Sept 15 onwards,” said Dr Adham, at a job handover ceremony with Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

       In the recent new Cabinet announcement, the two ministers had their posts swapped.

       Dr Adham said vaccination walk-ins in other states will remain as of now.

       “Those in other states are advised to follow the announcements made by their respective state health departments for the walk-in programmes there,” said Dr Adham.

       The co-chairman of Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) said its outreach programmes with non-government organisations will continue its ‘mop-up’ initiative.

       “This is to ensure that no one is left out from our vaccination programme,” said Dr Adham.

       To date, 97.8% of adults in the Klang Valley are fully vaccinated.