COVID-19 | Malaysia is expected to receive its initial supply of one million doses of Sinovac vaccine from China in March, one month ahead of the Covid-19 vaccine agreement inked with the Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, according to Pharmaniaga Bhd.

"We will start distributing the vaccine soon, hopefully in March. But our agreement states the distribution will commence in April. We will distribute one million doses in the first month, and subsequently, two million doses per month in the following months," Pharmaniaga group managing director Zulkarnain Md Eusope said in an online press conference today.

Under the agreement, Pharmaniaga's unit, Pharmaniaga Lifescience...