KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28 -- Complaints of several politicians and their aides jumping queuefor the Covid-19 vaccine began making the rounds on social media following its rollout last week.

Malay Mail was told that politicians, especially ministers, could bring up to five of their officers to receive the vaccine with the approval of the officer in charge of the district health, with a bottle of Pfizer vaccine containing six doses, which need to be administered right away upon its unsealing.

However several of the ministers were said to demand more, bringing in extra people without prior announcement that led to the remaining doses being wasted.

A health officer in Putrajaya told Malay Mail that a minister came in and demanded that an "offi...