PETALING JAYA: Malaysia, together with greater than 50 different nations, has reached the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) target of 70% of their inhabitants to be totally vaccinated towards Covid-19 by mid-2022.
According to Our World in Data (Owid), a complete of 55 nations and territories, together with Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia, have inoculated greater than 70% of its inhabitants.
Another 33 nations, which incorporates Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines are on observe to satisfy WHO’s purpose.
This means lower than half or 43% of the 205 nations and territories tracked by Owid are on observe to realize the WHO target.
The remaining 117 nations and territories could not have the ability to hit the target, which incorporates all African nations, the United States and Turkey.
WHO, on Dec 23, 2021 had known as for worldwide dedication to make sure each nation would have totally vaccinated a minimum of 70% of its inhabitants by mid-2022.
“The rapid emergence of the Omicron variant is a stark reminder of the ongoing threat posed by the evolution of the Covid-19 virus and reinforces the critical need to achieve high levels of immunisation coverage in all countries, including in highly vulnerable populations, in a timely manner,” mentioned the WHO on its web site.
Owid had additionally revealed Malaysia as among the many prime 20 nations with the most important share of totally vaccinated inhabitants.
As at Feb 4, 78.8% of Malaysia’s inhabitants have been totally inoculated towards Covid-19 with a complete of 25.7mil doses administered.
On Feb 2, the Health Ministry mentioned 517,107 youngsters between the ages of 5 and 11 have registered for the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, which is able to permit the nation’s vaccination charge to succeed in greater than 80% totally vaccinated inhabitants.
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin in a press release yesterday, warned that Malaysia will see a spike in Covid-19 instances within the weeks to return on account of the Omicron wave, much like Singapore which has recorded over 13,000 Covid-19 instances in a single day on Feb 4.
“Our cases will also rise sharply in the next few weeks. This is the highly transmissible Omicron wave. So far, severity is far lower than Delta. Stay vigilant. Get boosted,”he mentioned in a tweet.
Malaysia recorded 7,234 Covid-19 instances on Feb 4, however the Health Ministry mentioned that the majority of these contaminated are asymptomatic or with delicate signs.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah mentioned on Friday that the excessive vaccination and booster charges within the nation have resulted in fewer sufferers in Categories 3, 4 and 5.
“Today (Friday) of the 7,234 cases reported, only 73 patients (or 1%) are in Category 3, 4 and 5.
“More importantly 7,161 (99%) of the patients are in Category 1 and 2. It shows that vaccination works,” he mentioned.
