KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 25 -- The National Science Council has agreed to develop a national vaccine development roadmap, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin has said.

According to Khairy, the objective of the roadmap is to make Malaysia a country that is able to produce vaccines for humans in 10 years' time.

"For now, Malaysia does not have adequate facilities to develop vaccines for human usage (end-to-end).

"But realising changes from time to time, a positive step needs to be taken.

"The National Science Council has agreed that a national vaccine development roadmap should be developed with the objective of making Malaysia a country that can produce vaccines for humans in 10 years' time," he told the Dewan Ra...