KOTA KINABALU, Feb. 22 -- Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor is expected to receive the Covid-19 vaccination on March 4, following the launch of the state level immunisation programme.

However, it was unclear if Hajiji would be the first in the state to undergo vaccination for the dreaded coronavirus.

"During the launching, in all other categories of recipients, normally the head of government is the first one to be given," Sabah Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Masidi Manjun said this evening.

Masidi said that although the first phase of the immunisation is to be given to frontliners, the state will consider allowing teachers with comorbidity and other high risk factors to be included.

Hajiji is a survivor of Covid-19, having contracted t...