47% of total population fully vaccinated

47% of total population fully vaccinated

A total of 61.6% have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

A total of 369,280 vaccine doses were administered yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR:
A total of 47.2% of the population, or 15,429,300 individuals, have completed their vaccination as of yesterday, according to the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV).

An infographic shared on the committee’s official Twitter also showed that 20,115,233 or 61.6% have received the first dose, with 35,519,754 doses of the vaccine being dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) until yesterday.

According to JKJAV, the percentage of the adult population who had received both doses of the vaccine increased to 65.9% yesterday, from 65.1% on Wednesday.

The number of doses dispensed yesterday was 369,280 doses, with 187,645 doses to second dose recipients and 181,635 as the first dose.

PICK was launched last Feb 24 to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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