A total of 18,295,014 individuals or 78.2 percent of the adult population in the country has been fully vaccinated as of yesterday, according to the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV).

JKJAV, in an infographic on its official Twitter account today, said 93.1 percent or 21,938,426 individuals of the adult population received at least one dose of the vaccine.

On the daily vaccination rate, it said a total of 232,559 doses of the vaccine were dispensed yesterday, with 73,106 doses as the first dose and 159,453 doses to second dose recipients, bringing the number of doses dispensed under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) to 40,155,975 doses.

NIP was launched on Feb 24 to curb the spread of the pandemic.

- Bernama 

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