Over the weekend, Minister of Science Technology and Innovation, Khairy Jamaluddin announced that bookings for the AstraZeneca vaccine can be done on Sunday (May 2nd) at 12pm.
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However, all 260,000 available appointments for the AZ vaccine are now fully booked in less than four hours!
Bookings for AZ will be accepted from 1200hrs today when it officially opens at https://t.co/TF4fINjmn7. You will see this. Pick one date and one PPV only. If a date is unavailable and turns grey, you can still click to be put on the wait list for that date & PPV. pic.twitter.com/pg92nyNypw
— Khairy Jamaluddin 🇲🇾🌺 (@Khairykj) May 2, 2021
Just a few minutes after registration started, the site received overwhelming traffic but it was fixed later on.
In a tweet, Khairy Jamaluddin said: “All AZ slots are fully booked. My apologies for the initial glitch and multiple refreshes.”
He also stated in his tweet that appointments will soon be sent to those registered for the vaccine via the MySejahtera app or through SMS.
All AZ slots are fully booked. My apologies for the initial glitch and multiple refreshes 🙏🏾. You can still click on the grey boxes to put yourself on a wait list for next couple of hours. We will start pushing appts to your MySj or sms soon. pic.twitter.com/aBKwCsIRUu
— Khairy Jamaluddin 🇲🇾🌺 (@Khairykj) May 2, 2021
For those who still wish to register for the AZ vaccine can still click on the grey boxes on the site and you will be put onto a waiting list.
The AstraZeneca vaccination will begin on Wednesday (May 5th)!
Some people should be waking up to their AZ appointments in their MySj. These are progressively being pushed out throughout today. Any issues please reach out to @JKJAVMY.
— Khairy Jamaluddin 🇲🇾🌺 (@Khairykj) May 3, 2021
We hope that everything goes well! Have you registered for the COVID-19 vaccine?
By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat
