KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (July 2): Yesterday (July 1), Malaysia gave 263,012 doses of Covid-19 vaccination, up from 258,773 doses the day before.
According to the latest tweets by the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force, 178,148 people received their first doses and 84,864 people received their second doses yesterday (CITF).
The seven-day moving average of Covid-19 immunization, on the other hand, fell to 217,656 doses from 218,455 the day before. This is noticeably behind the government’s original objective of administering an average of 300,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine per day in July and 400,000 doses per day in August.
According to JKJAV, a total of 8.35 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been delivered across the country thus far, with 5.95 million initial doses and 2.39 million second doses.
In other words, as of yesterday, 18.2 percent of the population had received their first dose, while 7.3 percent had been fully immunized.
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Sarawak had the highest cumulative number of first doses delivered among the states and federal territories, with 1.12 million, or 39.6% of its population, followed by Kuala Lumpur with 1.06 million, or 59.5 percent of its population.
Selangor had the highest cumulative number of shots delivered (318,774, or 4.9 percent of its population), followed by Johor with 256,096 (or 6.8% of its population) for second doses.
Meanwhile, after one month of the Full Movement Control Order (FMCO), Covid-19 cases in Malaysia are on the rise again, with the Health Ministry reporting 6,988 new infections yesterday, the third day in a row that new infections have topped 6,000.
For the record, the nationwide FMCO went into force on June 1st, with a total of 7,105 Covid-19 cases reported.
Active cases had risen to 65,453 as of Tuesday, the highest level in 13 days. The government also verified 84 more deaths, increasing the total number of people who have died as a result of the coronavirus to 5,254./n
