KUALA LUMPUR: Four people in Malaysia have succumbed to Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated, while another 80 died of the illness after one inoculation, said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah
"Our recent clinical audit data analysis on the "breakthrough deaths" showed that among the overall 12,993 deaths recorded, 80 cases had been partially vaccinated (0.6 per cent) and 4 cases had full vaccination (0.03%), he said in a posting on his Twitter account.
The posting comes amid demand for granular data on Covid-19 deaths post-vaccination as cases and transmission rates now surge outside the borders of Klang Valley, Johor, Penang and Sarawak.
Experts have also demanded the data due to the rising number of the Delta variant strains sequenced by the ministry over the past few weeks to determine the actual efficacy levels of individual vaccines against the dreaded strain.
The data is also crucial for Malaysia to decide whether or not booster shots would be needed to combat the Delta and other emerging variants, experts had argued.