Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng has urged his successor Chow Kon Yeow to accept a private firm's offer to sponsor two million doses of vaccine for the state.<br /><br />He argued that people's lives mattered and described the move to prevent access to the vaccines as nothing short of a crime.<br /><br />According to Chow, who spoke at the same press conference in Penang this evening, the Health Ministry rejected the state government's application in March for the Sinovac vaccines.<br /><br />Lim, who noted that the people were furious over the issue, was unable to contain his own feeling of indignation on the matter.<br /><br />“How can this happen? If we have two million doses of vaccine, all frontliners, senior citizens and high-risk groups can be saved, many lives can be saved,” Lim added.
