KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 17,026,781 individuals or 72.7% of the country’s adult population have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as at Saturday, according to the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV).

       JKJAV, through an infographic on its official Twitter account, said that 90.9% of the adult population have received at least one dose, including recipients of the CanSino single-dose vaccine.

       A total of 38,260,575 vaccine doses has been dispensed as at Saturday, including both single-dose and two-dose vaccines.

       A total of 258,929 vaccine doses were administered through the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme on Saturday, according to JKJAV.

       The programme was launched on Feb 24 to contain the pandemic. — Bernama