Healthcare worker injecting the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on a secondary school student during the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Adolescents (PICK-A) at the Management and Science University (MSU) in Shah Alam. PIX: MOHD ADZLAN / MalaysiaGazette / 20 SEPTEMBER 2021.
Healthcare worker injecting the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on a secondary school student during the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Adolescents (PICK-A) at the Management and Science University (MSU) in Shah Alam. PIX: MOHD ADZLAN / MalaysiaGazette / 20 SEPTEMBER 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 2,702,748 individuals or 85.9% of the country’s adolescent population aged 12 to 17 had completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Sunday (Nov 28).

Based on data from the Ministry of Health through the COVIDNOW website, 2,818,165 individuals or 89.6% of the age group had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

As for the adult population, 22,659,382 individuals or 96.8% had completed their vaccination. They were among 23,006,300 individuals or 98.3% of the age group who had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Meanwhile, a total of 42,010 vaccine doses were dispensed on Sunday with 2,030 as first shots, 3,214 second jabs and 36,766 as booster doses, bringing the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation programme so far to 53,231,117. -BERNAMA

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