KUALA LUMPUR: Some 28.3% or 9,246,295 of the country’s population have completed both doses of Covid-19 vaccination as of Tuesday, says Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

       Through an infographic shared on his Twitter account, the minister said a total of 16,119,916 people had received the first dose of the vaccine, bringing the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered until Aug 10 to 25,366,211.

       On the daily vaccination rate, 357,891 vaccine doses were dispensed on Tuesday, with 160,320 for the first dose and 197,661 for the second.

       The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme was launched on Feb 24 to curb the spread of the virus. — Bernama