KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 8,800,700 doses of vaccine have been administered to people in the country as of yesterday under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, says Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

       In a Twitter post yesterday, he said that a total of 2,539,686 people received their second dose.

       “A total of 217,807 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were administered on Saturday involving 141,140 recipients of the first dose and 76,667 individuals who received their second dose injection,” he said.

       Meanwhile, the five states that recorded the highest number of two-dose recipients were Selangor with 342,677 people followed by Sarawak (278,528), Johor (266,779), Kuala Lumpur (232,170) and Sabah (225,690). — Bernama