KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's vaccination rate has exceeded that of many other countries, including the United Kingdom.
In sharing a screenshot of vaccination rates collated by Oxford University's "Our World in Data", Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme (NIP) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin on his Instagram wrote: "Our vaccination rate has exceeded that of the UK when they were at their peak."
The graph showed the rolling seven-day average of vaccine doses administered per 100 people in the total population (for vaccines that require multiple doses, each individual dose is counted).
In a chart comparing the average doses administered in several nations and regions including Europe, Asia, UK, North America and the United States, Malaysia appeared to be leading in inoculation rates.
The data noted that Malaysia's vaccination rate began to surpass the UK since June 21 where the country had administered 0.60 doses per 100 people on average against 0.55 in the UK.
On July 8, Malaysia successfully administered 0.91 doses per 100 people in the population on average, compared to 0.38 in the UK, 0.67 in Europe, 0.49 in Asia, 0.33 in North America and 0.18 in the US.
As of July 9, Malaysia had on average administered 0.96 doses per 100 people.
A total 324,745 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were dispensed yesterday (July 10), bringing the overall number of vaccine doses administered nationwide to 11,075,493.