KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 -- Most countries recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic started to introduce vaccine benefits to those fully inoculated against Covid-19 when a threshold of 30 to 40 per cent of the population has been vaccinated, said Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The Health director-general said this was the approach that is being looked at by the government as it prepares to announce its own set of leeways and loosened regulations for fully vaccinated individuals.

"When we see vaccination rate reaches about 30 to 40 per cent, most countries we see, they start allowing leeways or benefits. Not all restrictions are necessarily removed, but certain leeways are given.

"So when we reach about 30 to 40 per cent vaccinated, we can ...