KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 21): A total of 18.63 million people or 79.6% of Malaysia’s adult population had been administered both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as of yesterday (Sept 20), according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) COVIDNOW website, citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).
It added that 93.1% of the adult population or 21.79 million individuals had received at least the first dose.
The website also projected that 80% of the adult population is to be fully vaccinated by today.
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 vaccine doses administered rose to 289,618 yesterday from 219,081 the day before.
Of the total doses administered, 94,145 recipients received their first shot, while the remaining 195,473 got their second jab,
Cumulatively, 40.66 million shots had been administered across the nation as of yesterday.
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Meanwhile, a total of 22.1 million people or 67.7% of Malaysia’s population had received at least the first dose as of yesterday, including 18.65 million or 57.1% who were fully inoculated.
For the Klang Valley, comprising Selangor, Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur, about 7.08 million persons or 84.1% of its total population had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Among them, 6.6 million individuals or 78.4% of the Klang Valley’s population were fully inoculated.
Sabah recorded the highest daily number of first doses administered yesterday with 30,781 jabs, followed by Johor (13,575), Pahang (8,733) and Kelantan (8,205).
As for second doses, Johor topped the list with 31,620 shots, followed by Kuala Lumpur (22,178), Perak (21,690) and Kedah (21,206).
Malaysia reported 14,345 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, down from 14,954 the day before. This brought total Covid-19 infections in the country to 2.11 million.
Meanwhile, 301 more Covid-19 related deaths were reported, raising the nation’s cumulative fatalities to 23,744.