Over 400,000 children given first dose


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 454,194 children or 12.8% of the child population, aged from five to 11 in Malaysia, has received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Saturday.

Based on data from CovidNow, 13,924,411 or 59.2% of the adult population in the country has received the booster dose, 22,943,785 or 97.5% has been given two doses while 23,220,757 or 98.7% has received at least one dose.

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