{"id":162967,"date":"2022-03-04T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162967"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:56:46","slug":"covid-19-pickids-booking-for-children-aged-five-to-eleven-years-old-begins-on-march-7-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162967","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: PICKids booking for children aged five to eleven years old begins on March 7 across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Syahirah Nawawi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PETALING JAYA, 4 March 2022: From Monday (March 7), parents may enrol their children aged five to eleven in the National Covid-19 Child Immunisation Programme (PICKids).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Protecthealth Corporation Sdn Bhd said the booking management system would be made available nationwide via the MySejahtera app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153This is a continuous government effort in ensuring the well-being and health of children including protection against the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153It is also recommended to update the app to the latest version before proceeding to book an appointment through the booking management system,\u009d it said on Friday (March 4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents or guardians may also find their preferred PPV for PICKids under ProtectHealth at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protecthealth.com.my\">www.protecthealth.com.my<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PICKids, which was launched on February 3, was previously rolled out in the Klang Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, 821 private health facility PPVs (private clinics, private specialist hospitals, private hospitals and ambulatory care centres) and 91 offsite PPVs under ProtectHealth are providing PICKids vaccinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 28 February, a total of 879,264 doses of vaccination for PICKids have been administered since its commencement.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em>The Star<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Syahirah Nawawi PETALING JAYA, 4 March 2022: From Monday (March 7), parents may enrol their children aged five to eleven in the National Covid-19&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":162969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,2705],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/covid-children-696x392-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162976,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162967\/revisions\/162976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}