More than 1.5 million children unvaccinated against Covid-19, Dewan Rakyat told


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,518,773 children below the age of 12 have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, says Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali.

From the amount, there were 264,750 children who aren't vaccinated because they are below the age of five, said Dr Noor Azmi.

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