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95.8% of adults fully jabbed as total shots given top 50 million

Some 97.8% of adults have received at least one jab while just over 70% of teens are fully vaccinated.

Bernama
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Teenagers wait with their parents and guardians at the KPJ Tawakkal vaccination centre in Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur.
Teenagers wait with their parents and guardians at the KPJ Tawakkal vaccination centre in Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur.

A total of 22,417,059 individuals or 95.8% of the adult population had completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of yesterday.

Based on the health ministry’s data on the CovidNow portal, 97.8% of the adult population, or 22,893,173 individuals, have received at least one dose of vaccine.

A total of 41,391 doses of vaccine were given yesterday, with 18,162 as second doses, 2,864 to first-dose recipients and 20,365 as booster dose, bringing the total number of doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme to 50,463,307.

As for teenagers aged 12 to 17, a total of 2,208,399 or 70.2% had completed their vaccination as of yesterday, while 83.4% or 2,623,303 had received at least a first dose.

On the administration of the booster dose, a total of 492,054 jabs had been administered as of yesterday.