SHAH ALAM, May 29 — Selangor Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari will meet the Coordinating Minister of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin tomorrow to discuss various issues including misunderstandings regarding recent vaccine slots bookings.
Amirudin said there were misunderstandings in the statements of the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) and SELangkah (Step In, Safely).
“I just communicated with YB @Khairykj about the CITF & SELangkah statement, there were misunderstandings in yesterday’s statements.
“Tomorrow, he (Khairy) invited me to meet to coordinate a more cohesive work in the future. (This) thing can be discussed why (we) want to post in the media,” he said on Twitter today.
Yesterday, SELangkah chief executive officer Tengku Iesta Tengku Alaudin stressed that they were not involved in the recent AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine opt-in programme chaotic mess.
He strongly rejected the allegations by the CITF that it had made bookings without the applicant’s permission and described the allegations as totally baseless.
He also stressed that SELangkah would not hesitate to initiate legal action against anyone who spread false allegations to tarnish its reputation.
Earlier yesterday, CITF said it had identified the cause of some individuals receiving appointment dates for the AstraZeneca vaccine even though they did not make any bookings.
CITF accused SELangkah of making mass bookings reservations for individuals in the ImuniSEL database without checking whether they will agree to receive the vaccine and to replace their original appointments with AstraZeneca, if any.
On Tuesday, technical glitches during the AstraZeneca opt-in registrations had triggered wide backlash when many Malaysians failed to submit their vaccination applications on the AstraZeneca opt-in website.
