PETALING JAYA: The country is edging closer to have half of its adult population jabbed at least once with a Covid-19 vaccine, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

       The Prime Minister said 46.7% of the country's adult population have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 21.8% have received both doses.

       He said since July 12, the National Covid-19 Immunisation Program has successfully dispensed over 400,000 doses almost daily.

       Muhyiddin said that the country hit a new record on Thursday (July 22) with a daily vaccination rate of 507,050 doses, adding that this means 10,920,862 people have received their first dose and 5,104,054 people have completed their inoculation since the vaccination programme began.

       "This achievement is in line with the target set and must be further improved so that we can achieve the target of 26 million fully-vaccinated Malaysians,” said Muhyiddin.

       "With vaccination, we will be able to help reduce the burden of cases in hospitals and severe infections," he added in a Facebook post on Friday (July 23) thanking all Malaysians - especially frontliners - for contributing to the success of the immunisation programme.