Selangor Journal
Mentari Court residents receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Surau Al- Mustaqim, Petaling Jaya, on July 5, 2021. — Picture by REMY ARIFIN/SELANGORKINI

MB: 2.3 mln doses of vaccine administered in Selangor, daily vaccinations cross 110,000

SHAH ALAM, July 15 — A total of 2.3 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Selangor to date under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK), which is the highest figure among the states in Malaysia, says Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari.

In a Facebook post today, the Menteri Besar said 12.02 per cent of the Selangor people had received two doses.

“In addition to the PICK programme, we also have the Selvax programme which had recorded total vaccine delivery of 57,339 doses as of yesterday,” said Amirudin in reference to the Selangor Vaccination Programme, which was launched on June 30.

Amirudin said the daily vaccination rate in the state had reached 114,416 doses yesterday, excluding the shots administered under Selvax.

“Selangor had also achieved 78 per cent usage of vaccines supplied from CITF (Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force). There is a remainder of 618,000 to be administered and appointments have been set within a period of seven days taking into account the vaccination rate would reach 115,000 today.

“The state government will continue with the efforts to boost the vaccine delivery as one of the ket measures to combat the Covid-19 outbreak,” he added.

Earlier today, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba stated that the highest number of Covid-19 vaccines administered were registered yesterday at 434,828 doses.

Based on an infographic shared on his official Twitter account, a total of 87,284 individuals in Selangor received the first dose and 26,862 the second dose.

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