Over 8.5 mln doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered nationwide as of Friday

Vaccination programme in progress at Rejang Medical Centre in Sibu recently.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 3): A total of 8,582,893 doses of vaccines have been administered to the people nationwide as of Friday (July 2) under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK).

In a posting on Twitter, the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) said that 2,463,019 people had received their second dose, thus becoming fully vaccinated.

“A total of 236,196 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were given yesterday, involving the administering of 167,059 first doses and 69,137 second doses,” it said.

The five states that recorded the highest numbers of two-dose recipients were Selangor with 333,432 people followed by Johor (258,636); Sarawak (257,408); Kuala Lumpur (221,020) and Perak (219,044). – Bernama

from Borneo Post Online https://bit.ly/3ApZZvx
via IFTTT