Covid-19: Over 30% of children in Malaysia now vaccinated


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,078,539 or 30.4% of children in the country have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Wednesday (March 9).

Based on data from the Health Ministry's CovidNow website, 15,157,782 individuals or 64.4% of the adult population in the country have received a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 22,931,610 or 97.5% of the group have completed their vaccination.

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