Malaysia’s Public Service Department (PSD) is to investigate why a small minority of the country’s Public Servants have so far not registered for a COVID-19 vaccination.
The Government wants all its employees to be vaccinated ahead of a full return to office working.
Director-General of the PSD, Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman said the PSD would submit the names of the vaccine hold-outs to their respective Departments to discover reasons and for possible further action.
“Out of the more than a million Civil Servants, only 2.2 per cent have not registered for the vaccine,” Tan Sri Mohd said.
“So we will look into it and try to eliminate this percentage because when more service sectors are opened, they have to go to the office, attendance at the office is mandatory even though vaccination is not mandatory so far,” he said.
Tan Sri Mohd said that the latest figures showed 74 per cent of Public Servants had completed their COVID-19 vaccine injections while 17.8 per cent had received one dose.
“The PSD has also asked the Health Ministry to expedite the vaccination of 30,000 Civil Servants who have registered but still do not have an appointment date to be vaccinated,” the Director-General said.
“This is because if we want to open the economic sectors, Government services need to be opened first, so we hope those who do not have an appointment date will be vaccinated without delay,” he said.
Kuala Lumpur, 31 August 2021
