Covid-19: More than one million children in Malaysia given Covid-19 vaccine dose

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,003,227 children aged between five and 11 years or 28.3% of the child population in the age group in Malaysia have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Saturday (March 5).

Based on data from the CovidNow website, a total of 14,984,241 adults or 63.7% of the their population in the country have received their booster dose and 22,927,098 or 97.4 per cent have completed the vaccination, while 23,203,753 or 98.6% have received at least one dose of the vaccine.