91.2% of Malaysia's adult population fully vaccinated as of Thursday (Oct 14)

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 21,355,550 individuals or 91.2% of the adult population in Malaysia have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Thursday (Oct 14).

Based on the Health Ministry’s data on the CovidNow portal, 95% of the adult population, or 22,247,174 individuals have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

A total of 206,418 doses of the vaccine were dispensed yesterday, involving both the adult and the adolescent populations.

This brings the total number of doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) since Feb 24 to 46,458,672.

As for teenagers aged 12 to 17 years, a total of 551,972 individuals or 17.5% of them have completed the vaccination, while 76.7% or 2,416,010 others have received at least the first dose of the vaccine since the PICK programme for the group was launched on Sept 8. - Bernama