KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 18): A total of 21,960,911 individuals or 93.8% of the adult population of Malaysia had completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Sunday (Oct 17).
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Based on the Ministry of Health’s data on the COVIDNOW portal, they were among 97.2% of the adult population or 22,745,310 recipients who had received at least one dose of the vaccine.
A total of 134,180 doses of the vaccine were dispensed on Sunday, involving both the adult and the adolescent populations.
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This brought the total number of doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) launched on Feb 24 to 47,838,886.
Meanwhile, a total of 2,662 booster doses were administered on Sunday, taking the total number of booster shots given to 21,477.
As for teenagers aged 12 to 17 years, 25.6% or 806,330 persons among them had completed their vaccination. They were among 78.2% of the age group or 2,463,207 adolescents who had received at least the first dose of the vaccine since the PICK programme for them was launched on Sept 8.-BERNAMA