Health director-general Dr Radzi Abu Hassan says there have been no new cases in Rompin, Pahang, apart from the three reported recently.
Pertussis vaccines are routinely given to children when they are two, three, five and 18 months old.
This comes after three cases of pertussis were reported in Rompin, Pahang, involving a mother and her two children. “The health ministry’s priority is to ensure the pertussis immunisation coverage among children in Malaysia remains above 95% to ensure they are protected from infection. Pertussis vaccines were routinely given to children when they were two, three, five and 18 months old, he said.
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