Malaysia is now the 20th highest Covid-19 vaccination rate in the world, surpassing many early adopters such as Israel and the US, and is now neck-to-neck with the UK.

According to data compiled by the website Our World in Data, Malaysia has fully vaccinated 66.84 percent of its population, putting it just ahead of countries like Sweden (66.73 percent), Japan (66.37 percent), and the UK (66.37 percent).

However, the latest available data...