KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 22,417,059 individuals, or 95.8% of the adult population in the country, have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Thursday, the Health Ministry says.

       Based on its data on the CovidNow portal, 97.8% of the adult population, or 22,893,173 individuals, have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

       A total of 41,391 doses of the vaccine were dispensed yesterday, with 18,162 doses as the second dose, 2,864 doses to first dose recipients and 20,365 doses as a booster dose, bringing the total number of doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme that was launched last Feb 24 to 50,463,307, reported Bernama.

       As for teenagers aged 12 to 17, a total of 2,208,399 individuals or 70.2% of them, have completed the vaccination as of Thursday, while 83.4% or 2,623,303 individuals have received at least the first dose of the vaccine.