By Mustakim Ramli
SHAH ALAM, June 15 — The Selangor government will focus its vaccination drive on industrial workers to avoid the economic sector from collapsing.
Its Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said the sector has to be given priority as it is the main contributor to the state.
“An industry that collapses does not only impact the employers but the workers as well as they may lose their jobs…and we will increase the efforts done by the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) to vaccinate the workers in Selangor,” he said today.
Amirudin said this after attending the state’s Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Task Force meeting with the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin at the State Secretariat Building here today.
Meanwhile, Amirudin believed that the Selangor Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (SCVP) will help reduce the burden of the Federal government in curbing the spread of the pandemic.
“At this time several states such as Johor, Penang and Negeri Sembilan are consistent in the rise of cases in their industrial areas.
“We believed there is a strong justification for us to add groups that needed to be given the attention which is factory workers as industries form the backbone of the country,” he said.