Covid-19: 95.7% of Malaysia's adult population fully vaccinated

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 22,393,720 individuals, or 95.7%, of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Tuesday (Nov 2).

Based on the Health Ministry’s data on the Covidnow portal, 22,885,170 individuals or 97.8% of the adult population had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

A total of 122,142 doses were administered on Tuesday to both the adult and the adolescent populations, bringing the cumulative total of doses of vaccine administered under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 50,306,343.

As for teenagers aged 12 to 17 years, 69%, or 2,171,270, individuals had completed their vaccination while 83.2%, or 2,619,573 individuals, had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Meanwhile, 56,493 Covid-19 booster doses were administered yesterday, bringing the cumulative total to 407,607. - Bernama