KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 19,912,566 individuals or 85.1% of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Tuesday (Sept 28).

       Based on the Health Ministry’s data on CovidNow, 94% or 21,993,709 individuals of the adults in the country have received at least one dose of the vaccine until yesterday.

       It also showed 33,050 individuals or 1.1% of the adolescents, comprising those age between 12 and 17, having completed the vaccination.

       A total of 329,722 doses of the vaccine were dispensed yesterday, with 168,734 doses as first dose and 160,998 doses to second dose recipients, bringing the number of doses dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 43,028,919.

       PICK was launched on Feb 24 this year to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. - Bernama