THE national Covid-19 caseload breached the 600,000 mark today, after Malaysia reported 7,748 new cases in the past 24 hours.

Director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there have now been 603,122 cumulative cases reported nationwide.

Selangor topped the tally with 2,612 cases, followed by Kuala Lumpur with 851 cases.

As for other states, there were 286 cases in Kelantan, 706 in Sarawak, 287 in Sabah, 446 in Johor, 376 in Penang, 709 in Negri Sembilan, 371 in Perak, 263 in Kedah, 234 in Malacca, 146 in Pahang, 230 in Labuan and 203 in Terengganu.

Putrajaya and Perlis saw the least number of cases with 20 and eight cases respectively.

Meanwhile, after 100 days of the drive to vaccinate Malaysians against Covid-19, a total of 1,122,420 people have been inoculated as of June 3, an increase of 7,736 compared with 1,114,684 reported on Wednesday.

In a Twitter posting today, Health Minister Dr Adham Baba said 2,208,016 people had received the first dose of the vaccine, bringing the number of doses administered in the country to 3,330,436, as of yesterday.

He said Selangor has vaccinated the most people (145,636), followed by Sarawak (116,399), Perak (105,302), Kuala Lumpur (101,249) and Johor (97,983).

The first phase of the national Covid-19 immunisation programme, from February to April this year, involved 500,000 front-liners including healthcare personnel.

The second phase from April to August covers 9.4 million people, comprising senior citizens, vulnerable groups and persons with disabilities.

Phase three, from May 2021 to February 2022 will involve remaining adults not previously vaccinated. – June 4, 2021.