Some 32.9 percent of the country’s population, or 10,734,415 people, have completed two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine injections as of yesterday, said Health Minister Dr Adham Baba.

Through an infographic shared on his official Twitter, he said 17,076,440 people or 52.3 percent had received the first dose.

This brought the cumulative number of vaccine dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) as of yesterday to 27,810,855 doses.

The infographic also showed 72.9 percent of the adult population had received the first dose while 45.9 percent had completed both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, as of yesterday.

Meanwhile, on the daily vaccination rate, 415,875 doses of the vaccine were administered yesterday with 143,671 for the first dose recipients and 272,204 doses as second dose.

PICK was launched on Feb 24 to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

- Bernama