Experts: Slow start to vaccination programme, new variants behind current surge in Covid-19 cases

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People receive their Covid-19 jabs at the Eastin Hotel in Petaling Jaya July 23, 2021. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 —Delays to the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) and the emergence of new variants were possible reasons for the surge in new cases despite the country’s high vaccination rate, said health experts.Even as the country achieved one of the fastest vaccination rates in the world, partly due to the Ops Surge Capacity focused on inoculating the Klang Valley population, infectious disease and public health doctors who spoke to Malay Mail agreed the increase in infections were consequences of the earlier delays in the vaccination scheme.This delay, they said, has left a large group of the unvaccinated population susceptible to infection and who could eventually become Category-Three to Category-Five patients, which would in turn burden the …