{"id":987645464,"date":"2021-09-13T05:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/malaysia-examines-need-for-booster-shots-as-virus-spreads\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T05:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:45:49","slug":"malaysia-examines-need-for-booster-shots-as-virus-spreads","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/malaysia-examines-need-for-booster-shots-as-virus-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia examines need for booster shots as virus spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>Malaysia now considers giving booster Covid-19 vaccine shots due to the fast-spreading delta variant. An expert committee has been set up to conduct the need assessment for a third shot and the recommendation is expected to be given by the end of September.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>46% of Malaysians have been fully vaccinated as of Aug 31. While some states including Sabah and Perak are still lacking behind on vaccine coverage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Malaysia is not the only country that now considers the need for booster shots. Singapore is eyeing a third jab for some segments of the population, while Indonesia only provided booster shots for health care workers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/world\/2174803\/malaysia-examines-need-for-booster-shots-as-virus-spreads\">click<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Source: Bangkok Post<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia now considers giving booster Covid-19 vaccine shots due to the fast-spreading delta variant. An expert committee has been set up to conduct the need assessment for a third shot and the recommendation is expected to be given by the end of September. 46% of Malaysians have been fully vaccinated as of Aug 31. While&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}