KUALA LUMPUR: Half of the Malaysian population have received at least one vaccine dose, said the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV).
It also said 40.7 per cent of the adult population have received both doses of the vaccine since the Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme (NIP) rolled out on Feb 24.
In a series of Twitter updates, JKJAV said this was after a total 497,352 vaccine doses were administered nationwide yesterday.
Of the total, 227,506 people received their first dose, while 269,846 completed their second dose.
The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses given in Malaysia now stands at 25,863,563.
States with relatively low complete vaccination rates were among states with the highest number of administered first doses, namely Sabah with 30,026 doses, followed by Johor (29,166) and Kedah (27,324).
Selangor was the state with the highest number of second doses administered at 84,912, followed by Kuala Lumpur (44,613) and Johor (32,405).