KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 10): A total of 89.7% of Malaysia's adult population had been vaccinated as of Saturday (Oct 9), as the country administered 141,897 more Covid-19 vaccine doses, down from 174,829 doses the day before.
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With 89.7% of the adult population having completed the two-dose regimen — up 0.3% from 89.4% on Friday — it will likely take just another day for Malaysia to reach its 90% threshold of fully vaccinated adults.
The government has targeted to allow interstate travel once 90% of its adult population is fully vaccinated.
According to the Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob is scheduled to make a special virtual address at 3pm today.
Meanwhile, of the 141,897 vaccine doses administered on Saturday, 83,443 doses were given out to adults while 58,454 doses were administered to adolescents.
Out of those, 102,714 individuals received their second dose on Saturday, comprising 75,207 adults and 27,507 adolescents aged 12 to 17, according to data from the Ministry of Health's CovidNow website.
As of Saturday, 21,003,074 or 94.7% of adults in Malaysia had had at least one dose of vaccine, of which 22,176,018 or 89.7% had been fully vaccinated.
The percentage of adolescents who had received at least one dose stood at 71.5% or 2,248,867 individuals, while 6.5% or 204,536 had been fully vaccinated.
Of the total population, 74.8% or 24,424,885 had received at least one dose, while 64.9% or 21,207,610 had been fully vaccinated.
Cumulative doses administered as of Saturday stood at 45,521,196 doses.
Klang Valley remained in the lead with the highest fully vaccinated total population, at 82.2%, followed by Negeri Sembilan (71.3%), Labuan (70.5%) and Pulau Pinang (67.9%).
Sabah's population had been 47.4% fully vaccinated, behind Kelantan (47.7%) as well as Terengganu and Kedah (56.2%).