{"id":165388,"date":"2022-02-24T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=165388"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T03:06:15","slug":"more-than-600000-kids-in-malaysia-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=165388","title":{"rendered":"More than 600,000 kids in Malaysia vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of\u00a0661,752 individuals or\u00a018.6 per cent of children aged five to 11 in Malaysia have received their first dose of vaccine under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on statistics from the COVIDNOW website, 14,274,843 individuals or&nbsp;60.7 per cent of the adult population in the country have received their booster jab and&nbsp;22,946,057 individuals or&nbsp;97.5 per cent have completed their vaccination. A total of&nbsp;23,224,993 individuals or&nbsp;98.7 per cent of those eligible have received at least one dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For adolescents aged 12 to&nbsp;17, a total of&nbsp;2,799,485 individuals or 90.0 per cent of this age group have completed their vaccination while&nbsp;2,889,543 individuals or&nbsp;92.9 per cent have received at least one dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said 143,749 doses of vaccine were administered Wednesday, with&nbsp;47,876 shots under the first dose, 493 shots under the second dose and 95,380 shots as booster, bringing the total given out&nbsp;under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme to 66,589,636 doses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, according to the Health Ministry&#8217;s&nbsp;GitHub portal, 55 cases of&nbsp;COVID-19 deaths were recorded Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of\u00a0661,752 individuals or\u00a018.6 per cent of children aged five to 11 in Malaysia have received their first dose of vaccine under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (PICKids) as of Wednesday. Based on statistics from the COVIDNOW website, 14,274,843 individuals or&nbsp;60.7 per cent of the adult population [&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\/165388"}],"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=165388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165388\/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=165388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}