KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 20,053,472 individuals or 85.7 per cent of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of yesterday.
Based on the Health Ministry's data on COVIDNOW, 22,017,043 individuals or 94.1 per cent of the adults in the country have received at least one dose of the vaccine until yesterday.
It also showed 40,206 individuals or 1.3 per cent of the adolescents, comprising those age between 12 and 17, having completed the vaccination as of yesterday.
A total of 310,661 doses of the vaccine were dispensed yesterday, with 190,599 doses as first dose and 148,062 doses to second dose recipients, bringing the number of doses dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) to 43,367,580.
The NIP was launched on Feb 24 this year. --BERNAMA