Covid-19: Over 22 million adults in Malaysia fully vaccinated

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 22,318,132 individuals or 95.3% of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Monday (Nov 15).

Based on the Health Ministry’s CovidNow portal, 22,875,185 individuals or 97.7% of the adult population have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Meanwhile, 80.4% or 2,531,793 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 have completed their vaccination and 87 per cent or 2,740,442 individuals have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

On daily doses, a total of 102,057 doses were administered on Monday, with 26,295 doses as second dose; 5,488 doses to first dose recipients and 70,274 doses as booster dose, bringing the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered under the National COVID-19 Immunisation programme to 51,322,636.

As for booster doses, 1,042,234 doses have been administered as of Monday. - Bernama