The terms and conditions of the Program Imunisasi Industri COVID-19 Kerjasama Awam-Swasta (PIKAS) has been announced and are as follows: 

The Special Committee on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee (JKJAV) co-chaired by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and Ministry of Health (MOH) has agreed that the Program Imunisasi Industri COVID-19 Kerjasama Awam-Swasta (PIKAS) will be launched as Phase 4 of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Program (PICK) to accelerate immunisation of the Rakyat. This is to expedite the attainment of herd immunity among the community.

PIKAS is a public-private partnership immunisation program aimed at employees of which MITI has been tasked to coordinate the immunisation for employees in the manufacturing sector. Several other ministries will also be responsible for vaccination of employees in their respective sectors. Participation of companies and employees in PIKAS is voluntary.

EUROCHAM was honoured to be part of the insightful engagement session hosted by Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) today regarding Program Imunisasi Industri COVID-19 Kerjasama Awam-Swasta (PIKAS). Together with key industry players from the manufacturing sector, including EUROCHAM’s CEO, Mr Sven Schneider.  

The engagement session was chaired by Dato’ Sri Norazman Ayob, Deputy Secretary General (Industrial Development), MITI to discuss on the implementation of the public-private partnership immunisation program.

As part of EUROCHAM’s coordination effort on Covid-19 vaccination roll-out with all Bilateral & Associate chambers as well as the advocacy work of many chambers and associations finally resulted in a practical response by the government of Malaysia in the form of a launching announcement of the Covid-19 Public-Private Industrial Immunisation Program (PIKAS) as Phase 4 of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Program (PICK) that will involve immunisation of employees in the manufacturing sector. 

While EUROCHAM Malaysia has been spearheading this initiative in different proposals also acknowledged by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, we do recognize that there have been significant delays as well as changes in how the final programme is to be executed. We apologise for the delays and hope that this progress is considered a positive impact of our advocacy work conducted together with the EU bilateral chambers as well as many other foreign and local chambers and associations. We also thank all companies for their patience and collaboration. We are finally able to proceed via PIKAS.

The Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) has presented and proposed in the Special Session of National Security Council (NSC) chaired by the YAB Prime Minister today that PKP 3.0 be extended for another 2 weeks.

Accordingly, MCO 3.0 is extended for a period of two weeks effective from 15 June to 28 June 2021.

This decision was made after taking into consideration of the high number of daily cases at above 5,000 with the average number of new cases until yesterday being 6,871.