{"id":4916,"date":"2021-07-10T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2021-07-10T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:19:24","slug":"pikas-sabah-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/07\/10\/pikas-sabah-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"PIKAS Sabah kicks off\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">KOTA KINABALU: The Public-Private Partnership Immunisation Programme (PIKAS) in Sabah kicked off on Saturday targeting 18,000 workers from 407 manufacturing factories registered with the State Government here.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor said initially the workers are from factories located in Kota Kinabalu and nearby districts of Putatan, Penampang, Papar and Tuaran.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Through PIKAS, the government will roll out the vaccines for free while the private sector manages the vaccine administration centre (PPV) including private medical services.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8221; The cost of managing the PPV will be borne by the private sector to minimise government funding,\u201d he said after observing the first day of PIKAS PPV operations at the Sabah International Convention Centre (SICC) here this morning.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There are two types of PPV being used under PIKAS, that is Public PPV involving convention and exhibition centres including hotels, and the On-Site PPV being placed at factory premises.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hajiji said employers will be paying for their employees vaccination costs and they are not allowed to transfer such costs by deducting the employees salary even though the employee might no longer be with the company after getting the first dose.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhile PIKAS is being implemented, the government is committed to ensuring the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated and those who have registered under the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) remain a priority,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hajiji said companies interested to participate in the PIKAS programme could get more information and register online through www.miti.gov.my.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An initiative by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), PIKAS was launched to speed up the country\u2019s vaccination process with the aim of vaccinating at least two million workers in the manufacturing sector by the third quarter of this year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Launched as Phase 4 of PICK, PIKAS was introduced following suggestions from<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">the industries, chambers of commerce as well as small and medium enterprises<br \/>\nwishing to speed up the vaccination process of workers at their workplace.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Chief Minister commended MITI, Sabah for the PIKAS launch in Sabah and<br \/>\nexpressed confidence that herd immunity in the manufacturing sector can be<br \/>\nachieved so as to speed up the state\u2019s and country\u2019s economic recovery.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Public-Private Partnership Immunisation Programme (PIKAS) in Sabah kicked off on Saturday targeting 18,000 workers from 407 manufacturing factories registered with the State Government here. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor said initially the workers are from factories located in Kota Kinabalu and nearby districts of Putatan, Penampang, Papar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}