PETALING JAYA: The goal of vaccinating 80% of the population is well ahead of schedule following a record 1.07 million doses administered over two days this week, says Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin .
“Based on the data in ‘Our World in Data’, a website by Oxford University, Malaysia is now one of the countries in the world that has the fastest vaccination rate per capita. Earlier, Khairy informed lawmakers that the government had initially targeted the vaccination of 80% of the population by February next year when rolling out the national immunisation programme earlier this year.He noted the time frame was brought forward to December this year and then pushed earlier to October following the recent surge in Covid-19 cases.
“There is a total of 20,134,971 people who have registered for their vaccination, or the equivalent of 61.7% of the entire Malaysian population of 32.7 million people,” he said. However, he noted that 80.5% of the adult population had registered while 89% of senior citizens aged 60 and above had also registered for their vaccination.
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