KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 25 — The National Science Council has agreed to develop a national vaccine development roadmap, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin has said.
According to Khairy, the objective of the roadmap is to make Malaysia a country that is able to produce vaccines for humans in 10 years’ time.
“For now, Malaysia does not have adequate facilities to develop vaccines for human usage (end-to-end).
“But realising changes from time to time, a positive step needs to be taken.
“The National Science Council has agreed that a national vaccine development roadmap should be developed with the objective of making Malaysia a country that can produce vaccines for humans in 10 years’ time,” he told the Dewan Rakyat during his winding-up speech on the Budget 2021 Bill debate.
Khairy said the roadmap is expected to be ready by the second quarter of 2021.
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