[14][15] The COVID-19 Immunisation Task Force, or CITF (Malay: Jawatankuasa Petugas Khas Imunisasi COVID-19), was a committee established based on a decision made during a cabinet meeting held on 20 January 2021 by the Government of Malaysia to ensure that the distribution of vaccines was done flawlessly.

[40] The IMR was set to begin testing existing local vaccines in collaboration with the MVP and the University of Malaya's Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC) by 25 March.

[47] On 26 January, the Health Ministry signed an agreement with local pharmaceutical companies Pharmaniaga Berhad and Duopharma to obtain 18.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China and Russia for distribution in Malaysia.

[76] On 21 June, the coordinating minister for the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin confirmed that refugee communities in Malaysia would be inoculated with CanSino Biologics' Convidecia vaccine.

[90] On 13 August, Khairy Jamaluddin announced that Malaysia will start offering COVID-19 jabs to all children aged between 12 and 17 beginning 15 September 2021 following revised recommendations to the Special Committee On COVID-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV).

On 7 September, Minister of International Trade and Industry Mohamed Azmin Ali announced that Malaysia would start treating COVID-19 as an endemic disease from late October 2021 due to the country's high vaccination rate.

[98] The COVID-19 Immunisation Task Force-Adolescent (CITF-A) was formed on the same date under the Ministry of Health to target full vaccination for 80% of Malaysians aged 12 to 17 before the reopening of schools in the country.

[102][103] The National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for adolescents aged 18 and below will also be conducted through a scheduled walk-in method at 156 selected vaccination centres (PPVs) starting from Thursday (23 September) to facilitate and expedite the process.

[105] On 23 September, Khairy Jamaluddin stated that the goal of achieving herd immunity status is no longer suitable with the current situation due to the widespread transmission of the COVID-19 Delta variant and that vaccinations of adolescents under the immunisation programme is important instead.

[110] On 25 September, Deputy Health Minister Noor Azmi Ghazali said in a report that all public and integrated vaccination centres (PPVs) under the immunisation programme will cease operations beginning 15 October 2021.

[112] On 5 October, the Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon warned that teachers who refused to be vaccinated before the 1 November deadline set by the Public Services Department would face disciplinary action.

[128] On 27 December, Noor Hisham Abdullah announced that the Health Ministry would seek to boost the country's vaccine booster rollout due to a surge in COVID-19 cases originating in China.

[129] On 10 January, Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed that the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) had extended the shelf life of COVID-19 vaccines by one year after manufacturing companies submitted new data on their stability.

Khairy's then science advisor Ghows Azzam tweeted that the federal government has procured about 87.9 million vaccine doses (Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinovac, AstraZeneca-Oxford, the global COVAX facility, CanSino, and Sputnik V), enough to cover 140 per cent of the population.

[citation needed] Many also questioned why teachers, lawyers, students taking exams and even vaccine centre volunteers weren't given priority but certain other sectors of the economy were under the PIKAS by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).

[214] Khairy Jamaluddin, who is the Coordinating Minister for the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme, clarified that the amount was a ceiling set by the government for the development and management of various other health systems and not just for the registration of AstraZeneca vaccines.

[253][254] On 7 September it was reported that a long queue was spotted outside the Bandar Baru Ayer Itam government clinic in Penang, as the crowd, mostly foreigners, had gone there hoping to secure COVID-19 vaccination slots for next week.

The number of stateless residents or undocumented migrants, the lack of infrastructure and manpower along with the lackadaisical attitude towards the virus was blamed as the cause of overcrowding in Semporna and other rural areas in Malaysia.

[263] Some vaccination centres were also claimed to have separate queues for migrants[265][266][267] and there were also reports that they were made to stand in long lines under the hot sun while locals were allowed to sit with a shade or fan.

There have been reports on social media of some volunteers from vaccination centres obtaining the phone numbers and private information of recipients and sending them unsolicited messages after, breaching the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.

[287] Since the start of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme, multiple women have taken to social media saying they received text messages from on-duty staff – including those administering the jab – who got their contact details from MySejahtera or the vaccination forms they signed.

Malaysia Medical Practitioners Coalition Association president Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah said doctors had increasingly been receiving requests from people asking to be verified as vaccinated even though they declined to get the jab.

[315][351][352] Following the incident, The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has warned that any eateries that do not adhere to the SOPs, which includes allowing customers that are not fully vaccinated to dine-in will be ordered to cease operations immediately.

[361] On 13 January 2022, three civil servants in Alor Gajah, Malacca were arrested over possession of fake MySejahtera COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates for the purpose of obtaining the special finance assistance.

On 19 January 2022, at a press conference, Johor police chief Commissioner Kamarul Zaman Mamat revealed that eight individuals involved in a syndicate selling fake vaccine digital certificates between RM350 and RM650 each were arrested.

[369] This demand for priority to pregnant women also comes after the death of local singer Siti Sarah Raisuddin in early August, who died from COVID-19 just days after giving birth to her child after 28 weeks of pregnancy.

The association had written to the coordinating minister in-charge of COVID-19 vaccination Khairy Jamaluddin early March this year seeking a meeting to discuss the matter, but did not receive a reply from the ministry or JKJAV.

Dr Subramaniam Muniandy, president of the MMA, pointed out in his statement that the GPs that had undergone the onboarding programme were supposed to begin vaccinating in early May but were left hanging pending a go-ahead from the government.

Many medical practitioners want a change in the system, ideally, any patient could walk in to their respective GPs, get assessed, have their jabs and update their data on MySejahtera in a single uninterrupted process.

He also asked why the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), the main drug approval authority under the health ministry, had yet to give the green light for the Moderna vaccine.