{"id":162622,"date":"2022-02-21T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162622"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:25:05","slug":"more-than-500000-kids-in-malaysia-received-covid-19-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162622","title":{"rendered":"More than 500,000 kids in Malaysia received COVID-19 vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Hessa Kawthar <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 21 February 2022: A total of 513, 393 (14.5%) children between 5 to 11 years old in Malaysia received the first dose for COVID-19 vaccine under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme for Children (NIPKids) yesterday, <em>Bernama <\/em>reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a total of 13,992,391 (59.5%) adults in Malaysia have received the booster shot for COVID-19 with 22,944,158 (97.5%) have been completely vaccinated and 23,221,715 (98.7%) have at least received the first dose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For teenagers between 12 to 17 years old, a total of 2,798,806 (90%) were recorded as completely vaccinated with at least 2,884,882 (92.8%) receiving the first dose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 128,153 COVID-19 vaccinations were dispensed yesterday, involving 61,230 first doses, 464 for the second dose completion, and 66,459 for the booster doses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the total for vaccinated people under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme has accumulated to 66,148,498.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the GitHub portal from the Ministry of Health, there were 37 death cases due to COVID-19 reported yesterday in Johor with 9 cases, followed by Selangor (7), Kedah (6), Perak and Sabah each 4 cases, Pulau Pinang (3), Pahang (2), and 1 case in Melaka and Federal Territory of Labuan respectively.***&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Bernama<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hessa Kawthar KUALA LUMPUR, 21 February 2022: A total of 513, 393 (14.5%) children between 5 to 11 years old in Malaysia received the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5688,"featured_media":162625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,5688],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/81645015054_TBVAKSINBERADIK.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162638,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162622\/revisions\/162638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}