{"id":165087,"date":"2022-02-22T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=165087"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:15:16","slug":"15-9-per-cent-of-malaysias-child-population-given-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=165087","title":{"rendered":"15.9 per cent of Malaysia&#8217;s child population given COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 564,220 individuals or 15.9 per cent of the child population aged between five and 11 years in Malaysia\u00a0have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine\u00a0 under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the COVIDNOW website, a total of 14,078,456 or 59.8 per cent of the adult population in the country have received the COVID-19 booster dose and 22,945,040 or 97.5 per cent have completed the vaccination, while 23,222,810 or 98.7 per cent have received at least one dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For adolescents aged between 12 and 17, a total of&nbsp;2,799,132 individuals or 90 per cent of their population have completed the vaccination, while 2,886,655 or 92.8 per cent have received at least one dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, a total of&nbsp;137,307 doses of the vaccine were dispensed, with&nbsp; 52,804 as first dose, second dose (1,024) and booster dose (83,479), bringing to&nbsp;66,289,382 the cumulative number of vaccine doses that have been administered under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 564,220 individuals or 15.9 per cent of the child population aged between five and 11 years in Malaysia\u00a0have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine\u00a0 under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Monday. Based on the COVIDNOW website, a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":163413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198,318,269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165087"}],"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=165087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165087\/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=165087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}