STATE borders will be opened simultaneously nationwide for crossing in the coming days, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.

“I will most likely make an announcement within the next two or three days,” he said after the soft launch of Keluarga Malaysia at Angkasapuri in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia is almost reaching 90% of its adult population vaccinated against Covid-19, which is when the government has said it would allow interstate travel to resume.

Ismail said initially, the government wanted to allow interstate travel when vaccination reached 80% of the adult population, but some states still had low jab rates.

He added with 90% of the adult population vaccinated, there will be an average vaccination rate of 80% in each state, which will be safer for the public to travel.

As of yesterday 89.1% of the adult population were fully inoculated against the coronavirus, with 196,647 vaccine shots administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

Of that number, 108,092 were first doses while 88,555 were second shots.

More than 45.2 million doses of vaccines have been administered since the programme kickstarted on February 24 this year.

Meanwhile 68.5%, or about two million adolescents, have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 4.7% or 147,938 are fully vaccinated.

The Health Ministry’s CovidNow website tracker projected that 80% of adolescents would be fully vaccinated by November 2.

Children aged 12 to 17 received the Pfizer and Sinovac vaccines. – October 8, 2021.