Malaysia administered over 300,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses for fifth day in a row on July 9

KUALA LUMPUR (July 10): A total of 337,478 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were given yesterday (July 9) across the country, the fifth day running with over 300,000 jabs administered.

Yesterday’s figure is however lower than the record-high daily doses of 376,909 administered on the previous day (July 8).

A total of 213,396 individuals received their first dose of vaccine yesterday, while 124,082 were given their second dose, according to the latest tweets by the Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).

This brings the total doses of vaccines administered in Malaysia so far to 10.7 million, comprising 7.4 million first doses and 3.3 million second doses.

At least 22.8% of the population have been given their first dose whereas 10.2% of the population are fully inoculated as of yesterday.

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Among the states and federal territories, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Sarawak recorded the highest cumulative first dose yesterday. Selangor’s total stood at 1.384 million first doses, Kuala Lumpur’s at 1.340 million and Sarawak’s at 1.336 million.

For second doses, Sarawak led with the highest cumulative number of shots administered at 485,413, followed by Selangor (469,136) and Johor (330,282).

National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin noted yesterday that with over 10% of the nation’s population having completed two doses of vaccine, Malaysia has met the first national threshold for the transition from Phase One of Movement Control under the National Recovery Plan.

Khairy also pointed out the means of observing Covid-19 data upon reaching a certain threshold on vaccination, as it is a mitigation to ensure people do not die or get hospitalised from Covid-19 rather than suppression as the number of cases might still be high.

Citing the situation in UK, he said the UK government is starting to monitor hospitalisation and death rates despite currently facing more than 300,000 cases per day due to the Delta variant, just as the country is opening up.

"So likely we are following that trajectory as we open up the economy; transmission cases may still be there but what we want to see is death and hospitalisation goes down,” Bernama quoted him as saying.

Malaysia recorded 9,180 Covid-19 infections yesterday (July 9), a new record-high daily figure for the country. The previous highest number of 9,020 cases was reported on May 29.

The jump in new cases, up from 8,868 recorded on Thursday (July 8), came as the Ministry of Health ramped up public health measures — with more rigorous close contact detection and health screening for the early detection of Covid-19 cases — in areas that have been placed under the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO).

The latest cases were detected after screening 97,442 individuals across the country, representing a positivity rate of 9.42%. The number of individuals screened was up 47.5% from 66,063 people on Monday.

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