By Mustakim Ramli
AMPANG, June 19 — A total of 1,000 employees of Texas Instruments Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Texas Instruments) have received their Covid-19 vaccination doses since June 16.
Its managing director Yogannaidu Sivanchalam said the workers are part of Texas instruments 2,731 employees who became the first batch in the manufacturing sector in Selangor to be vaccinated.
He said they had been cooperating with the authorities since April with a series of visits conducted before the vaccination programme was implemented on Wednesday.
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Texas Instruments Malaysia Sdn Bhd managing director Yogannaidu Sivanchalam. -- Photo by REMY ARIFIN/SELANGORKINI[/caption]
"The programme to administer the first dose will run for eight days until June 23 and after three weeks the programme to administer the second dose begins, which will probably be on July 7.
"Even after they are vaccinated, the protocol will not be relaxed because the risk is still there, the previous SOPs (standard operating procedures) will still continue," he said when met here today.
On vaccination at its other plant located in Melaka, Yogannaidu said they had made an application and was waiting for a response from the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti).
"We are waiting for approval because it is done in stages and if there are vaccines, we hope to vaccinate all the workers as soon as possible," he said.
In a joint statement on June 15, the state government and Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) had mutually agreed to focus on the vaccine distribution to industrial workers and vulnerable groups including the elderly and disable persons.
