[PODCAST] Daily Dose @ 5: Malaysia COVID-19 cases breach 7,000-mark, HK could bin millions of unused vaccine doses

AMONG the headlines for Tuesday, 25 May, 2021, Malaysia’s Health Ministry announces another record daily cases for the country with 7,289 new COVID-19 infections within the last 24 hours.

Daily cases have been above the 6,000-mark for the past seven consecutive days, with the infection rate today breaching the 7,000-mark, bringing the overall total to 525,889 since the pandemic arrived in Malaysia.

Also, Hong Kongers may only have a three-month window before the city’s first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines go out of date, a member of the government's vaccine task force warned today.

The vaccine hesitancy for both the Chinese Sinovac and German-made Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines has left officials' efforts slowing down, as they are counting on vaccination to reopen the economy.

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