Over 83pc of adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19, says ministry
Published on: Monday, September 27, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kuala Lumpur: A total of 19,604,699 individuals or 83.7% of adults in the country have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of yesterday.
Based on health ministry data shared on CovidNow today, 93.7% of the adult population, or 21,944,808 people, have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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In addition, 28,982 or 0.9% of children aged 12 to 17 have completed their vaccination as of yesterday.
In total, 269,465 vaccine doses were dispensed yesterday, with 117,196 as the first dose and 152,269 the second, bringing the number of vaccine doses dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 41,457,628.
PICK was launched on Feb 24 this year to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, a total of 278 deaths due to Covid-19 were recorded as of yesterday, bringing the country’s death toll to 25,437.
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According to the ministry’s GitHub portal, of the number, nine cases were the actual deaths reported for the day, while the rest were backlog cases.
A total of 99 deaths reported yesterday were brought in dead (BID) cases.
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