A total of 20,927,867 individuals or 89.4 percent of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of yesterday, just 0.6 percentage points short of the targeted 90 percent.
Based on the Health Ministry data on the CovidNow portal, 94.7 percent or 22,166,911 individuals of the adult population have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
A total of 174,820 doses of the vaccine were dispensed yesterday with 74,199 for the first dose and 100,621 for the second dose, bringing the total number of doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) to 45,379,299.
Meanwhile, 5.6 percent or 177,029 of adolescents aged between 12 and 17 have completed their vaccination and 70.4 percent or 2,217,920 teenagers have received at least one dose of the vaccine,
On Sept 22, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said interstate travel would resume when 90 percent of the adult population in Malaysia have been fully vaccinated.
- Bernama
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