Covid-19 Watch: 41% of Malaysia's adult population has received booster dose


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 237,703 adults in the country received their Covid-19 booster shot on Monday (Jan 17), bringing the cumulative number of booster doses administered to 9,609,454 or 41% of the eligible population as at 11.59pm.

According to the Health Ministry's CovidNow portal, 22,906,072 or 97.8% of the adult population were fully vaccinated while 23,185,749 or 99% had received at least one dose of vaccine.

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