ALMOST 290,000 children, or 8.2% of the group, aged five to 11 years in Malaysia have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme for Children as of yesterday.

Based on the CovidNow website, more than 13.6 million people, or 57.8% of the adult population, in the country have received the booster dose while more than 22.9 million individuals (97.5%) have completed the vaccination and more than 23.2 million individuals (98.7%) have received at least one dose of a vaccine.

A total of 164,572 doses of the vaccine were administered yesterday, with 45,251 as first dose, including 42,659 doses for children aged five to 11 years; 1,637 as second dose; and 117,684 as second dose.

This brings the cumulative number of vaccine doses administered under immunisation programme to more than 65.5 million.

Meanwhile, director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, through a post on social media today, said the country’s infectivity rate was 1.32 yesterday, with Labuan recording the highest, at 1.96, followed by Sarawak (1.56) and Sabah (1.51). – February 17, 2022.