KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (July 10): Yesterday (July 9) a total of 337,478 doses of Covid-19 vaccinations were provided across the country, making it the sixth day in a row that more than 300,000 vaccines have been administered. However, yesterday’s total is lower than the previous day’s 376,909 daily dosages, which set a new record (July 8).
According to the latest tweets from the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccination Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force, a total of 213,396 people received their first dose of vaccine yesterday, while 124,082 received their second dosage (CITF).
This takes the total number of vaccination doses delivered in Malaysia to 10.7 million, with 7.4 million being first doses and 3.3 million being second doses.
As of yesterday, at least 22.8 percent of the population had received their first injection, while 10.2 percent had been fully immunized.
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Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Sarawak had the highest cumulative first dosage among the states and federal territories yesterday. The total number of first doses in Selangor was 1.384 million, Kuala Lumpur’s was 1.340 million, and Sarawak’s was 1.336 million.
Sarawak had the most total number of shots provided, with 485,413, followed by Selangor (469,136) and Johor (469,136). (330,282).
Malaysia has met the first national threshold for the transition from Phase One of Movement Control under the National Recovery Plan, according to National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who noted yesterday that over 10% of the country’s population has completed two doses of vaccine.
Khairy also mentioned the method of observing Covid-19 data once a specific vaccination threshold has been reached, as a precaution to guarantee that people do not die or become hospitalized as a result of Covid-19, rather than suppression, because the number of instances may still be high.
He cited the situation in the United Kingdom, where the government is beginning to track hospitalization and death rates despite the fact that the Delta variety is causing more than 300,000 cases every day, just as the country is opening up.
“As we open up the economy, we are likely to follow that trajectory; transmission instances may still exist, but what we want to see is a decrease in death and hospitalization,” he said, according to Bernama.
Yesterday (July 9), Malaysia registered 9,180 Covid-19 infections, a new daily high for the country. On May 29, the previous high of 9,020 cases was reported.
The increase in new cases, up from 8,868 on Thursday (July 8), came as the Ministry of Health tightened public health measures in regions under the Enhanced Movement Control Order, including more stringent close contact detection and health screening for early detection of Covid-19 infections (EMCO).
The latest instances were discovered after screening 97,442 people across the country, resulting in a 9.42 percent positive rate. The number of people tested increased by 47.5 percent from Monday’s total of 66,063 people./n
