The printed fake news flyer encouraging people to come to the BCCK PPV for walk-ins. – Photo courtesy of Ukas
KUCHING (July 10): Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas) today dismissed flyers claiming that the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) Covid-19 Vaccines Administration Centre (PPV) was accepting walk-in recipients.
Ukas said the printed flyers, which has been circulated and distributed among city dwellers in Kuching, is considered fake news.
BCCK PPV is one of the mass vaccination centres in the city, which started operation early last month.
The Sarawak government is accelerating the state’s National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, with a target of achieving herd immunity by end of next month.
At a news conference yesterday, Sarawak Disaster Management Committee chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said 21.32 per cent of the state’s population had completed both doses.
He added that 63.56 per cent of Sarawak’s population had received their first dose while 2.2 million individuals in the state are eligible for the vaccines.
On July 8 alone, Sarawak’s daily vaccination rate hit 77,343 doses, of which 29,206 were first dose and 48,137 second dose.