Covid-19: Khairy says 18 months to achieve herd immunity

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Malaysia has set to achieve herd immunity in 18 months against Covid-19 from February after the arrival of the first batch of the initial Covid-19 vaccine supply, said Special Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Committee co-chairperson Khairy Jamaluddin."On the timeline, we hope to achieve our target of getting 70 percent to 80 percent of the population inoculated within 18 months," he said in an interview with Astro Awani tonight.The initial supply of one million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is expected to arrive in February, will be used to vaccinate 500,000 frontliners, including 300,000 medical frontliners and 200,000 non-health frontliners.In the second phase of the vaccination plan, three million senior citizens and 3.5 million individuals with comorbidities are expected to be inoculated during the second quarter of the year, Khairy said.The general pop…