KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 22,409,335 people or 95.7% of the adult population have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.

       According to the Health Ministry’s data on the CovidNow portal, 97.8% of the adult population or 22,891,080 people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

       A total of 114,573 doses of the vaccine were dispensed on Wednesday with 42,306 recipients receiving the vaccine as their second dose, 8,185 as their first dose and 64,082 as booster doses.

       This brings the total number of doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme that was launched last Feb 24 to 50,420,916.

       As for teenagers, aged 12 to 17, a total of 2,197,961 or 69.8% have completed the vaccination while 83.3% or 2,622,306 have received at least the first dose of the vaccine.

       On the administration of the booster dose, a total of 471,689 doses had been dispensed as of Wednesday. — Bernama