KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 21): A total of 22,817,909 individuals or 97.5% of the adult population of the country had completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Monday (Dec 20).

Based on the Ministry of Health’s COVIDNOW portal, 98.8% of the group or 23,123,189 individuals had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

As for the adolescent population, comprising those aged between 12 and 17, 86.9% of them or  2,736,688 individuals had completed their vaccination. They were among 2,834,774 individuals or 90% of the age group who had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

A total of 145,004 doses of the vaccine were administered on Monday, involving 3,241 first jabs, 4,325 second shots and 137,438 booster doses.

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This brought the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme as of Monday to 56,034,257, including 4,717,084 booster doses.