KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 129,110 people have completed two doses of Covid-19 vaccine injections under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as of yesterday.
According to health minister Dr Adham Baba, 451,655 people had received the first dose, bringing the total number of first and second doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in the country to 580,765.
In an infographic shared on his official Twitter page today, Adham said Selangor remained the state that had received the highest number of first doses at 63,675, followed by Perak (49,545) and Sabah (42,030).
This was followed by Kuala Lumpur with 39,622, Sarawak (37,889), Johor (35,303), Pahang (33,466), Penang (31,802), Kedah (26,355), Negeri Sembilan (22,212), Terengganu (21,403), Kelantan (19,815), Melaka (11,963), Perlis (9,533), Putrajaya (4,695) and Labuan (2,347).
Meanwhile, Sarawak recorded the highest number of people who completed both doses of Covid-19 vaccine injection, namely 19,145, followed by Pahang (12,889) and Selangor (11,642).
Next is Kelantan with 11,604 people, followed by Kuala Lumpur (10,890), Sabah (10,193), Johor (9,991), Perak (9,760), Terengganu (6,809), Kedah (6,007), Penang (4,977), Negeri Sembilan (4,643) , Melaka (4,103), Putrajaya (2,234), Perlis (2,157) and Labuan (2,066).
Meanwhile, the number of registrations for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme stood at 7,235,436 or 29.83% of the population, with Selangor recording the highest number at 1,996,905.
The implementation period of the first phase of vaccination from February to April will involve 500,000 frontliners, including health workers.
The programme will continue with the second phase, beginning April 19 until August this year involving 9.4 million senior citizens aged 60 and above as well as high-risk groups with co-morbidities, in addition to persons with disabilities.
The third phase scheduled to start in May is for those aged 18 and above with a target of about 14 million people, who are expected to be vaccinated by February 2022.-BERNAMA