Covid-19: Less than 1 percentage point to go to achieving 90 per cent vaccination target


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 20,856,337 individuals or 89.1 per cent of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Thursday (Oct 7), just 0.9 percentage points short of the targeted 90 per cent.

Based on the Health Ministry's data on the CovidNow portal, 94.6 per cent or 22,153,302 individuals of the adult population have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

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