Vaccination: Inmates behind bars grateful they are not forgotten

Although behind bars, inmates at the Penor Prison in Kuantan are grateful that they were not forgotten when the government launched the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP).

One of them, identified as Tan, 30, said he already knew about the Covid-19 pandemic when he was brought to the prison last February and had wondered if he would also receive the vaccine when NIP was introduced being a prison inmate.

"During a telephone conversation with my parents, they asked me...