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Nearly 34% of children fully jabbed against Covid-19

Some 93.7% of teenagers have completed their vaccination.

Bernama
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A health worker shows a syringe of Covid-19 vaccine to a woman before administering it to her child at the Dewan Komuniti Taman Bukit Mewah vaccination centre in Kajang.
A health worker shows a syringe of Covid-19 vaccine to a woman before administering it to her child at the Dewan Komuniti Taman Bukit Mewah vaccination centre in Kajang.

A total of 1,202,212 or 33.9% of children aged five to 11 had completed their vaccination under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of yesterday.

According to the CovidNow portal, a total of 1,733,437 or 48.9% have received at least one dose of vaccine.

In terms of teenagers aged 12 to 17, a total of 2,914,353 or 93.7% have completed their vaccination while 3,009,343 or 96.8% have received at least one dose.

Meanwhile, a total of 16,106,736 individuals or 68.5% of adults have received a booster dose while 22,981,301 or 97.7% have completed two doses.

A total of 23,258,115 or 98.9% have received at least one dose of vaccine.

Yesterday, a total of 1,904 vaccine doses were dispensed with 176 as first doses, 1,287 as second shots and 441 as booster jabs.

This brings the cumulative number of vaccine jabs administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 70,991,146.

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