A DAP lawmaker has urged Putrajaya to allow Penang to procure its own Covid-19 vaccine after Sarawak did so when it purchased 500,000 doses of Sinovac recently.

In a statement today, Pengkalan Kota state assemblyperson Daniel Gooi (above) stressed the importance for the state to procure its own vaccines as this would speed up vaccination in the state.

"It is known that the immunisation programme and vaccine supplies should...