KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (July 8): Malaysia recorded the greatest number of Covid-19 vaccination doses delivered to date, with 375,842 doses given out yesterday (July 7). According to the latest tweets by the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force, 207,795 persons have received their first dose and 168,047 have received both doses (CITF).
This is the third day in a row that the country has produced over 300,000 daily shots. On Monday, 313,761 vaccination doses were given out, while 340,043 doses were given out on Tuesday.
In the last three days, Malaysia has given out nearly one million doses.
The daily vaccine doses seven-day moving average increased to 278,954 from 262,230 earlier.
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Selangor had the most shots in the first dose, with 49,645, followed by Kuala Lumpur (35,168) and Sarawak (35,168). (29,137).
Sarawak, meantime, had the greatest number of two-dose vaccinations (those who have been fully immunized) in the country, with 43,834, followed by Selangor (30,964) and Kuala Lumpur (30,964). (20,784).
Since the country’s immunization strategy began on February 24, a total of 10.04 million vaccine doses had been administered. 7 million people have received their first injection, while 3.04 million have been fully immunized.
Malaysia recorded 7,097 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, marking the country’s second consecutive day with more over 7,000 cases.
According to Health Director-General Tan Sri Noor Hisham Abdullah, Selangor, the worst-affected state, continues to report more than 3,000 new infections, with 3,119 cases, followed by Kuala Lumpur (1,005) and Negeri Sembilan (788).
The total number of Covid-19 infections in the country was 799,790./n
