PETALING JAYA: For some senior citizens, it can be a mad scramble to sign up for the AstraZeneca vaccine programme, and they are enlisting the help of their children who live abroad. A teacher in Penang, who only wanted to be known as Tan, wanted to register her husband, who is in his 60s and classified as “high risk”. “We tried to register but all the slots were filled up within 20 to 30 seconds. When her turn comes to register for the vaccine, Tan said she would ask her daughter to do it for her as she could not risk another technical error. About 30 minutes later, the Special Committee on Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee said that the technical issue was resolved.

Source: The Star May 23, 2021 23:43 UTC