Almost 17% of population fully vaccinated

A total of 17,317,553 vaccine doses have been administered nationwide under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme from its launch on Feb 24 until yesterday.

Health Minister Dr Adham Baba said in a Twitter post that as of yesterday, 5,519,845 recipients or 16.9% of the population had completed both doses of vaccine.

“Some 36.1%, or 11,797,708 recipients, had received a first dose,” he said.

He said 399,135 vaccine doses were administered yesterday, 281,481 of them to first-dose recipients and 117,654 to second-dose recipients.