Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the move to vaccinate senior citizens against Covid-19 appears to be paying off with incidents of severe symptoms among them declining.

Taking stock of this, Muhyiddin said this was why Operation Surge Capacity, which aims to administer at least the first dose of the vaccine to all adults in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, was launched.

"This is the government's immediate action to manage the spike of Covid-19...