10pct of population fully vaccinated against Covid-19: KJ

 

A total of 3,190,789 people or 10 percent of the population has completed two doses of the Covid-19 vaccination as of yesterday, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

He said this marked Malaysia meeting the first national threshold for the transition from Phase 1 of the movement control under the National Recovery Plan (NRP).

“For the adult population, 30 percent has received the first dose, while 13.6 percent completed two doses of the Covid-19 vaccination

"Early this month we announced to administer 300,000 jabs on average in July, but over the last three days we did 1 million doses,” he said at the ‘Vaccine Advocacy Forum’ at the National Pharmacists Convention (NPC) 2021, which was streamed live on YouTube today.

Referring to the smaller number of doses administered a few months ago, Khairy, who is also the science, technology and innovation minister, said it was caused by low vaccine supply as well as global inequality in vaccine distribution.

- Bernama