Vaccination rate of adolescents aged 12-17 exceeds initial target

A total of 1,967,549 (62.5 percent) adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the country have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine as at Oct 5, which exceeds the initial target set.

Deputy Health Minister Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali in a tweet said the total first dose recipients included 343,231 (90.9 percent) of teenagers aged 16 and 344,933 (92.8 percent) of schooling...