KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 — The number of death due to Covid-19 in the country over the past 24 hours has dropped to two digits.
The last time a two digit number in Covid-19 death was recorded in the country was last July 6, with 99 deaths.
The Ministry of Health (MOH), through its website https://Covidnow.moh.gov.my, stated that a total of 99 deaths due to Covid-19 was recorded yesterday.
Meanwhile, the number of backlog of death cases which was not reported previously was 292 cases, which brings to a total of 20,711 deaths due to Covid-19 in the country so far.
As of yesterday, 52.6 per cent or 17,177,911 individuals of the country’s populations have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.
A total of 65.4 per cent or 21,372,276 individuals have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and they included recipients of the single-dose CanSino vaccine.
On the daily vaccination rate, a total of 227,476 doses of vaccine were administered yesterday, bringing the total dose given through the National Covid-19 Immunisation Program (PICK) to 34,488,051.
PICK was launched on February 24 to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
— Bernama
