KUCHING, May 6 : A police report has been filed against Pending Assemblywoman, Violet Yong, for alleging on her Facebook that the State Government is using expired COVID-19 vaccines for booster doses.
According to Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Central Youth Central Assistant Secretary, Liew Leong Yee, who was accompanied by the Youth Chief of SUPP Kuching Branch, Eric Tay, there were two video postings posted on her Facebook.
In those postings, Yong stated that the Sarawak Government had used the people of Sarawak as “guinea pigs” by administering expired Covid-19 vaccines as booster doses.
“Such statements are untruthful and baseless. Federal Ministry of Health and National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) and the Sarawak Government have issued several statements that the manufacturers of the vaccines had extended all the expiration dates of their respective kinds of vaccines to longer dates.
“Thus, the booster dose vaccines are not expired and are effective,” Liew said in a statement.
Yong’s statement had created public disorder as well as fear and worries among the people of Sarawak.
As such, many people had refused to go forward to receive a second booster dose due to her untruthful statements, and this had jeopardised the effort of the Sarawak Government in combating COVID-19.
“Consequentially, the lives of people and the safety of the society are at stake,” he added. – TVS
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