PARLIAMENT | With Malaysia's per capita vaccination rate now among the fastest in the world, the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) is seen as an important shield in the fight against the virus and in achieving herd immunity.

Coordinating minister for the immunisation programme, Khairy Jamaluddin, when explaining NIP in the Dewan Rakyat today, said the percentage of the country’s population with at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine completed had surpassed some developed countries, like Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand...