Over 19 Million Of Malaysia’s Adult Population Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (Bernama) -- A total of 19,156,694 individuals or 81.8 per cent of the adult population in the country have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Thursday. Based on the Health Ministry’s data on COVIDNOW, 93.3 per cent or 21,847,551 individuals of the adult population have received at least one dose of the vaccine until Thursday. At the same time, 23,703 individuals, or 0.8 per cent of the adolescent population in the country have completed their COVID-19 vaccination. A total of 326,612 doses of the vaccine were administered on Thursday, 132,562 of which were for first-dose recipients and 194,050 others were for second-dose recipients, bringing the cumulative total of vaccines administered under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 41,573,883 doses. PICK was launched on Feb 24 this year to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. -- BERNAMA