KUALA LUMPUR (May 19): The fight for Covid-19 vaccine is heating up on the home front – not just internationally – and Pharmaniaga Bhd seems to be at the centre of the domestic affair.

News that Penang has secured two million doses of Sinovac for free from a private company but barred by the Federal Government from using them, while Sarawak has reportedly received approval to procure up to one million Sinovac vaccines, are raising eyebrows. Selangor, meanwhile, is offering companies vaccines for a price to speed up the vaccination among their workers.