Although behind bars, inmates at the Penor Prison in Kuantan are grateful that they were not forgotten when the government launched the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP).

One of them, identified as Tan, 30, said he already knew about the Covid-19 pandemic when he was brought to the prison last February and had wondered if he would also receive the vaccine when NIP was introduced being a prison inmate.

"During a telephone conversation with my parents, they asked me...