THE country saw an increase in the number of vaccines administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme yesterday, where a total of 197,274 shots were given compared to 168,956 doses on Sunday. 

Between June 1 and 25, Malaysia had administered more than 200,000 vaccines daily. However, the target had not been met in recent days. 

The Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV) said that of the total jabs given, 154, 279 were first doses while 42,995 were second doses. 

The total number of vaccines administered as of June 28 has now increased to 7.59 million. 

Of this figure, 2.13 million people or 6.5% of the population have received both doses while 5.46 million or 16.7% of the population have received their first dose of the vaccine. 

Putrajaya leads the chart of having the highest rate of those who are fully vaccinated with 26,570 or 24.2% of the population there receiving both their shots. 

Selangor has the most number of people to have received their second dosage of vaccine at 275,098. However, since they are the most populous state, their fully vaccinated percentage rate stands at 4.2%. 

Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, said recently that the government wants to immunise 10% of the population against Covid-19 by mid-July.

This will mean that roughly 10.7 million doses will have to be administered within the time frame.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that Putrajaya has allocated RM400 million to increase vaccine supplies to expedite the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. 

Muhyiddin said with the additional orders for vaccines, the government will have enough jabs to immunise 130% of the population compared with the targeted 120% previously.

He added that the additional supplies will also enable the government to start inoculating 6.4 million teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18. – June 29, 2021.