KUALA LUMPUR: 10 per cent of the population is expected to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by mid-July.
Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme (NIP) coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the government aims to administer some eight million doses this month.
"With every 100 doses administered, 30 of them are for the second dose. To fully immunise 10 per cent of the population or 3.2 million people, we need to administer roughly 10.7 million doses by mid-July.
"This will involve ramping up our vaccination capacity (300,000 doses administered daily by July and 400,000 doses daily in August)," said Khairy who is also Science, Technology and Innovation minister in a virtual press conference today.
He was commenting on the National Recovery Plan (NRP) which has set an indicator of 10 per cent vaccination rate for the population, before the country could shift into the second phase to allow more economic activities to resume.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said the other two indicators are the number of daily Covid-19 cases and public health capacity based on the bed utilisation rate in intensive care unit (ICU) wards.
"We are monitoring these two and have seven more days (before the scheduled full lockdown ends on June 28). We have seen a drop in Covid-19 daily cases (average daily Covid-19 cases must fall below 4,000).
"Meanwhile the bed utilisation rate in ICU wards has seen slight drops, but the overall occupancy rate is still higher than the set 75 per cent (benchmark)," he said.
Dr Adham said the three indicators could be fulfilled if everyone towed the line and extended full cooperation in getting to the NRP's second phase.