KUALA LUMPUR: A complete of 169,710 youngsters aged between 5 and 11, or 4.8% of the group within the nation, have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as of Sunday.They got the vaccine below the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) which was launched on Feb 3.
They will obtain their second dose inside an eight-week interval.
Meanwhile, primarily based on the CovidNow portal, a complete of 13,258,893 or 56.4% of the grownup inhabitants within the nation have received the booster dose as of Sunday.
A complete of twenty-two,936,644 people or 97.5% of the inhabitants have accomplished the vaccination, whereas 98.7% or 23,212,859 people have received not less than one dose of the vaccine.
For adolescents aged between 12 and 17, a complete of two,795,507 or 89.8% have accomplished the vaccination, whereas 2,874,510 or 92.3% have received not less than one dose, Bernama reported.
On Sunday, a complete of 118,875 doses of the vaccine have been allotted, involving 35,441 because the first dose, 649 because the second dose and 82,785 because the booster dose, bringing the cumulative variety of vaccine doses administered to 65,042,686.
