Among the headlines for Wednesday, 17 March 2021, a total of 346,508 people had received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine under the first phase Malaysia’s National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as of yesterday, according to a graphic uploaded by Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba on his official Twitter account today.

Also, the State Sahgha Maha Nayaka Committee, in its most forthright condemnation of Myanmar’s military bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, urges the junta to end violence against protesters and accused an “armed minority” of torture and killing innocent civilians following the February 1st coup.

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