KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 14,487,972 individuals or 61.9% of the adult population in Malaysia have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of Saturday, said the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV).

       JKJAV, in a Twitter post, said 19,241,946 individuals or 82.2% had received their first dose, bringing the cumulative figure for vaccines administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 33,724,744 doses as of Saturday.

       It said 58.9% of the country’s overall population had received the first jab of the vaccine while 44.4% had completed both doses.

       On the daily vaccination rate, it said 336,642 doses were administered on Saturday, with 190,010 for second-dose recipients and 146,632 for first-dose jabs.

       PICK was launched on Feb 24. — Bernama