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Published on: Thursday, July 29, 2021
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Kuala Lumpur: With Malaysia’s per capita vaccination rate now among the fastest in the world, the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pick) is seen as an important shield in the fight against the virus and in achieving the herd immunity in the country.
Coordinating Minister for the immunisation programme, Khairy Jamaluddin
(pic), when explaining the programme in the Dewan Rakyat Wednesday, said the percentage of the country’s population having received at least one dose of the Covid-19 had surpassed some developed countries, like Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand.
He said the programme, involving an allocation of RM5.8 billion, initially targeted 80 per cent of the population to receive the vaccine by February next year, but had been brought earlier to December this year after taking into account the current development.
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Chinese researchers reported the findings from a study of blood samples from healthy adults aged between 18-59 in a paper published on Sunday, which has not been peer reviewed.
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Among participants who received two doses, two or four weeks apart, only 16.9% and 35.2% respectively still had neutralizing antibodies above what researchers regard as a detectable threshold level six months after the second shot, the paper said.
Those readings were based on data from two cohorts involving more than 50 participants each, while the study gave third doses of the vaccine or placebo to a total of 540 participants.