Almost half of adults given booster dose


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 199,251 adults in Malaysia received the Covid-19 booster on Thursday, bringing the cumulative number of booster doses administered to adults in the country to 11,531,403 or 49.3%.

According to the Health Ministry’s (MOH) CovidNow portal, a total of 22,921,716 or 97.9% of the adults have completed their vaccination, while 23,199,172 individuals or 99.1% of the group have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

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