{"id":164190,"date":"2022-02-17T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=164190"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:15:27","slug":"more-than-8-pct-of-child-population-in-malaysia-given-first-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=164190","title":{"rendered":"More than 8 pct of child population in Malaysia given first dose of COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, \u00a0Feb 17 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 289,912 children or 8.2 per cent of the child population aged between five and 11 years in Malaysia have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children\u00a0(PICKids) as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the COVIDNOW website, a total of&nbsp;13,607,475 individuals or 57.8&nbsp;per cent of the adult population in the country have received the booster dose, while 22,940,521 individuals or 97.5 per cent have completed the vaccination and&nbsp;98.7 per cent or 23,217,374 individuals have received at least one dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 164,572 doses of the vaccine were administered Wednesday, bringing the cumulative number of vaccine doses&nbsp;administered under PICK to 65,524,828 dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Health Ministry\u2019s GitHub portal, 21 deaths due to COVID-19 were recorded Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Health Director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, through a post on social media, stated that the country&#8217;s infectivity rate (Rt) recorded 1.32 Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, \u00a0Feb 17 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 289,912 children or 8.2 per cent of the child population aged between five and 11 years in Malaysia have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children\u00a0(PICKids) as of Wednesday. Based on the COVIDNOW website, a total of&nbsp;13,607,475 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":163413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}