{"id":22501,"date":"2021-06-29T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=22501"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:26:07","slug":"1-5-million-promises-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/1-5-million-promises-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"1.5 million promises broken!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-90x90.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises-960x960.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broken-promises.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Press Statement<br>25<sup><sup>th<\/sup><\/sup>&nbsp;June 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1.5 million senior citizens, people with disabilities, and teachers are still waiting for their vaccines<\/strong><br><br>Vaccination of port and cargo workers starts today while plans are underway to start the vaccination of e-hailing delivery riders by next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intention is no doubt noble. But, let&#8217;s do a reality check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Khairy told us that some 930,087, or one-third of registered senior citizens, are still waiting for vaccines with about 253,719 to receive their first dose this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Women, Family, and Community Development Minister Rina Harun said about 19,000 out of 280,000, or 7% of people with disabilities who signed up for the vaccine, have been vaccinated. In other words, 261,000 or 93% of people with disabilities are still waiting for their vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, around 264,000 or 64% of teachers in government schools are yet to be vaccinated. This number does not include teachers in kindergartens and private schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.5 million&nbsp;vaccinees from these 3 groups alone, still waiting anxiously for their vaccine, despite being promised that they would be prioritised during phase 2 of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, phase 4 of the NCIP has started on June 16 while Form 5 and Form 6 students will begin receiving their Covid-19 vaccination next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is nice to promise more and more people that they will be prioritised. However, if the promise cannot be materialised, we will end up creating more anxiety and dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Teo Nie Ching<\/strong><br><strong>MP&nbsp;for Kulai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Statement25th&nbsp;June 2021 1.5 million senior citizens, people with disabilities, and teachers are still waiting for their vaccines Vaccination &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,531,274],"tags":[367,1973,1605,1826,1433,1432,1074],"class_list":["post-22501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current","category-featured","category-national","tag-covid-19","tag-disabilities","tag-phase-2","tag-senior-citizens","tag-teachers","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22550,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions\/22550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}