KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 19,912,566 people or 85.1% of the adult population have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.

       Based on the Health Ministry’s data on CovidNow, 94% or 21,993,709 adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

       It also showed 33,050 people or 1.1% of the adolescents, comprising those aged between 12 and 17, having completed the vaccination.

       As of Tuesday, a total of 329,722 doses of the vaccine have been administered with 168,734 doses as first dose and 160,998 doses as second.

       This brings the number of doses dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme to 43,028,919.

       The immunisation programme was launched on Feb 24 this year to curb the spread of the pandemic.

       Separately, a total of 240 deaths due to Covid-19 were reported on Tuesday with 71 of them under brought-in-dead (BID) cases, bringing the cumulative deaths to 25,935 people.

       Of the fatalities, 89 cases were actual deaths reported for the day while the rest were backlog cases. — Bernama