KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (June 29): Yesterday (June 28), Malaysia gave 197,274 doses of Covid-19 vaccination, up from 168,956 doses the day before. According to the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), who cited data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF), 154,279 people received their first doses and 42,995 people received their second doses yesterday.
The seven-day moving average of Covid-19 immunization, on the other hand, fell to 220,283 doses from 225,761 the day before.
The government has updated its targets upwards, according to National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, to deliver 300,000 doses per day from July and 400,000 doses per day in August.
According to JKJAV, a total of 7.59 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been delivered across the country thus far, with 5.46 million initial doses and 2.13 million second doses.
As of yesterday, at least 16.7% of the population had received their first injection, and 6.5 percent had been fully infected.
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Sarawak had the highest cumulative number of first doses delivered among the states and federal territories, with 992,043, or 35.2 percent of its population, followed by Kuala Lumpur with 958,203, or 54 percent of its population.
With 275,098, or 4.2 percent of its population, Selangor had the greatest cumulative number of shots administered, followed by Sarawak with 240,232, or 8.5 percent of its population.
Meanwhile, Malaysia reported 5,218 new Covid-19 infections yesterday, with 57 more deaths, bringing the country’s total death toll to 5,001.
The number of new cases remained above 5,000 for the sixth day in a row.
In the 24 hours leading up to noon yesterday, 61,025 persons were tested across the country, with an 8.55 percent positivity rate.
It’s worth noting that in order to move on to Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan, the country’s average daily new Covid-19 cases must be below 4,000.
Aside from that, the public health system should be out of crisis mode, with intensive care unit (ICU) bed use returning to moderate levels and 10% of the population receiving two doses of vaccination injection. Continue reading