Majority of deaths in ‘fully vaxxed’ Klang Valley are unvaccinated

Since Sept 11, the Klang Valley has the dubious distinction of seeing the vaccination rate among its adult population exceed 100 percent due to underreporting in the census data.

With such high vaccination rates, one might reasonably assume the deaths still occurring in the region to be among fully vaccinated people – for the simple reason that there are few, if any, unvaccinated people left.

Adolescents are just starting to be vaccinated and children are not eligible, but these age groups are generally less susceptible to Covid-19’s worst outcomes.

However, a closer examination of the Covid-19 death records shows that unvaccinated people still make up the majority of recent Covid-19 deaths in the Klang Valley, despite being an increasingly small minority.

Malaysiakini examined the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 death data for deaths that occurred from...