KUALA LUMPUR: An encouraging 87.2% or 20,418,495 individuals from the adult population have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.

       This is just 2.8% short of the government’s required 90% target of reopening state borders.

       Based on the Health Ministry’s data on the CovidNow portal, 94.3% or 22,070,545 of the adult population have received at least one dose of the vaccine while 3% or 92,949 of adolescents, aged between 12 and 17, have completed theirs.

       A total of 211,517 doses of the vaccine were administered on Saturday with 89,695 as first dose and 121,822 as second, bringing the total number of doses given under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 44,145,505.

       PICK was launched on Feb 24 to curb the spread of the disease.

       Separately, 109 deaths due to Covid-19 were reported on Saturday, with 33 of them categorised as brought-in-dead cases, bringing the death toll to 26,565. — Bernama