KUALA LUMPUR (July 2): Malaysia administered 263,012 doses of Covid-19 vaccine yesterday (July 1), up from 258,773 doses a day earlier.

Of this, 178,148 individuals received their first doses, while 84,864 persons got their second doses yesterday, according to the latest tweets by the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF). 

However, the seven-day moving average of Covid-19 vaccination dipped to 217,656 doses, from 218,455 doses the day before. Noticeably, this is still behind the target that the government has previously set, which is to administer an average of 300,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine per day in July and 400,000 doses per day in August.

In total, 8.35 million Covid-19 vaccine doses had been administered across the nation so far, comprising 5.95 million first doses and 2.39 million second doses, according to JKJAV.

In other words, at least 18.2% of the population had gotten their first dose, while 7.3% of the population were fully inoculated as of yesterday.

Among the states and federal territories, Sarawak reported the highest cumulative number of first doses administered at 1.12 million, or 39.6% of its population, followed by Kuala Lumpur at 1.06 million or 59.5% of its population.

For second doses, Selangor recorded the highest cumulative number of shots administered at 318,774, or 4.9% of its population, followed by Johor at 256,096 or 6.8% of its population.

Meanwhile, Malaysia’s Covid-19 cases are on the rise again after one month of the Full Movement Control Order (FMCO), as the Health Ministry reported 6,988 new infections yesterday, marking the third consecutive day that new infections stayed above 6,000.

For the record, the nationwide FMCO came into effect on June 1, when 7,105 Covid-19 cases were recorded. 

As of yesterday, active cases rose to 65,453 — the highest in 13 days. The ministry also confirmed 84 more deaths, bringing total fatalities linked to the coronavirus to 5,254.