KUALA LUMPUR: A day after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said everything was fine.
There had been no side effects following the injection, he said, which had previously been associated with feeling of discomfort, fever or pain and numbness on the part of the body where the shot is given.
"Alhamdulillah, a day after receiving the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, I experienced no side effects, so far. There are also no symptoms of fever or feeling of pain (on the body where the injection was given).
"The total amount of the vaccine used is only 0.3ml and the needle used is a fine needle, in the size of 25G," he wrote on his Facebook page.
He also urged members of the public to register on MySejahtera for the vaccine, which will be given out according to the prescribed eligibility phase.
"Vaccines provide self-protection and offers herd immunity. 'Lindung Diri, Lindung Semua' (Protect Yourself, Protect All)."
Dr Noor Hisham was inoculated against the virus yesterday along with Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and several medical frontliners, kicking off the country's largest inoculation programme against Covid-19.
Meanwhile, he posted on Twitter that in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, the ministry's top priority was to first vaccinate all its Covid-19 immunisers, followed by staff who manage or are exposed to Covid-19 patients, including cleaners.
He clarified that some of the ministry's staff in the headquarters involved in the vaccine task force and National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC), were not even included in phase 1 of the National Immunisation Programme (NIP).
"Please wait for your turn," he said.
Phase 1 of the NIP aims to inoculate 500,000 medical and non-medical frontliners.