INTERACTIVE: How vaccinating kids boosts Malaysia's Covid-19 fight


A kid receiving her first jab of Covid-19 vaccine from a medical officer at the Kota Damansara PPV on Sunday (Feb 6, 2022). - AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's recent move to include kids aged five to 11 in its Covid-19 inoculation programme will widen vaccine coverage at a crucial time as the number of cases has been surging, say experts.

There are 3,633,900 children aged five to 11, making up 11.1% of the country's estimated 32,657,400 population, according to figures posted on the Health Ministry's GitHub online repository.

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