Covid-19: 95.5% of Malaysia's adult population fully vaccinated

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 22,350,755 individuals or 95.5% of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Wednesday (Nov 17).

The Health Ministry released the data through its CovidNow portal, saying that a total of 22,891,163 individuals or 97.8 per cent of the adult population have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

For the adolescent population, it said that 81.4% or 2,563,344 of Malaysia's adolescent population has completed the vaccination while another 87.2% or 2,745,553 individuals have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

A total of 117,736 doses of vaccine were administered yesterday involving 20,013 second doses, 6,243 first doses and 91,480 booster doses.

The latest development brings the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation programme (PICK) to to 51,591,383. - Bernama