COVID-19: 8.0 Pct Of Malaysian Population Fully Vaccinated

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 (Bernama) -- A total of 2,618,316 people or 8.0 per cent of the Malaysian population have completed two doses of COVID-19 vaccination as of Sunday (July 4), said Health Minister Dr Adham Baba. The COVID-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) targets that 10 per cent of the country’s population or 3.2 million people will be fully vaccinated by the middle of July under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK). In a Twitter post, Dr Adham said a total of 9,006, 715 doses of vaccines were dispensed yesterday. “For daily vaccination, a total of 206,015 doses of vaccines were administered yesterday, involving 127,385 first dose recipients and 78,630 who received their second vaccine shot,” he said. -- BERNAMA