KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 20,317,843 individuals or 86.8% of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.

       Based on the Health Ministry’s data on the CovidNow portal, 3.2% more is required to achieve the 90% adult vaccination rate.

       As of Friday, 94.2% or 22,059,329 individuals within the adult population have received at least one dose of the vaccine while 71,779 or 2.3% of adolescents, aged between 12 and 17, completed their vaccination.

       A total of 237,245 doses of the vaccine were dispensed on Friday with 103,021 as first dose and 134,224 as second dose, bringing the total number of vaccine doses dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme to 43,933,988.

       A total of 121 deaths due to Covid-19 were reported on Friday, with 28 of them brought-in-dead, bringing the total death due to the virus in the country to 26,456.

       On the total death reported on Friday, only 83 cases were the actual deaths reported for the day while the rest were backlog cases. — Bernama