Sabah extends enforcement deadline on fully vaccinated workers to Sept 21

 By Olivia Miwil - September 12, 2021 @ 9:38pm

Sabah has extended the deadline requiring workers and patrons to be fully vaccinated while they are at various premises. - NSTP/DANIAL SAAD

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has extended the deadline requiring workers and patrons to be fully vaccinated while they are at various premises.

State Covid-19 spokesperson Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said initially, the requirement was supposed to be fully enforced on Sept 15 for those in the trade and distribution sectors, restaurants and shopping malls.

"However, due to the state's vaccination rate for its adult population being only at 52 per cent, the date for the enforcement is delayed to Sept 21, which is also when Sabah achieves 60 per cent (vaccination rate for adults).

"There are delays among workers at those sectors to get their second doses, especially for the AstraZeneca vaccine.

"Therefore, employers had asked for temporary exemption from enforcement. Those applications have to be sent to local authorities," he said in a statement,

Today, Sabah administered 26,522 vaccine doses including 6,096 single doses of the Cansino vaccine, which is less than half of the targeted daily 60,000 doses.

Sabah recorded 1,717 Covid-19 cases with nine people under Category Three, 11 people under Category Four and seven people under Category Five.