{"id":10806,"date":"2021-08-15T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T04:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10806"},"modified":"2021-08-15T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T04:02:30","slug":"covid-31-9-pct-of-malaysian-population-fully-vaccinated-dr-adham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10806","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 31.9 pct of Malaysian population fully vaccinated &#8211; Dr. Adham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 &#8212; A total of 31.9 percent or 10,425,300 of the country\u2019s population have completed two doses of\u00a0COVID-19 vaccination as of yesterday (Aug 14), said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Adham Baba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Adham, through an infographic, shared on his official Twitter, said, a total of 16,868,615 people or 51.7 percent had received the first dose, bringing the cumulative number of doses administered under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 27,293,915 doses as of yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-15-at-11.59.17.png\" alt=\"covid\" class=\"wp-image-10807\" width=\"518\" height=\"324\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of percentage, 72.1 percent of the country\u2019s adult population had received the first dose while 44.5 percent had completed both doses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on daily vaccination rate, he said a total of 442,150 doses were administered yesterday with 161,049 being the first dose while 281,101 the second dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PICK was launched on Feb 24 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the country&nbsp;last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 &#8212; A total of 31.9 percent or 10,425,300 of the country\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7574,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=7574\" rel=\"category\">COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10808,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}