Over 62,000 children given first Covid vaccine jab
Meanwhile 54.5% of adults have received a booster shot.
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A total of 62,809 children aged five to 11, or 1.7% of their population in the country, had received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine as of yesterday.
They were given the vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) which was launched on Feb 3, and will receive their second dose within eight weeks.
According to the CovidNow portal, a total of 12,769,610 individuals or 54.5% of the adult population had received a booster dose as of yesterday.
A total of 22,933,328 individuals or 98.0% have completed their vaccination and 99.2% or 23,208,714 individuals have received at least one dose of vaccine.
In terms of teenagers, a total of 2,793,710 individuals or 88.8% have completed their vaccimation while 2,871,310 or 91.3% have received at least one dose of vaccine.
Yesterday, 165,653 vaccine doses were administered with 14,195 as first doses, 2,097 as second shots and 149,361 as booster jabs.
This brings the cumulative number of vaccine doses given under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme to 64,434,353.
Meanwhile, according to the health ministry’s GitHub portal, a total of nine deaths due to Covid-19 were reported yesterday – two cases each in Perak and Sabah, and one case each in Johor, Kedah, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang and Selangor.
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