LABUAN – Labuan is set to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 by the end of this month, with the number of people vaccinated having risen to 92.41% of the total adult population as of today.
Labuan Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force chairman Rithuan Ismail said the achievement was chiefly thanks to the teamwork of the Labuan Disaster Management Committee’s members with the People’s Representative Council and volunteers of Privo Team.
“We are glad to note the increase in the local folk awareness of the importance of immunisation. Based on our data, the number of people vaccinated now stands at 63,300 of the 68,500 total eligible adult population, with 70.59% or 48,353 having received the second dose,” he said today.
He said Labuan aimed to administer the vaccine to 95% of the adult population and contain the spread of Covid-19 to the local folk, as well as squatters at the Filipino refugee settlements and oil and gas and shipping crews.
People’s Representative Council chairman Mohd Dzulfaizal Ab Manan said the turnout at the nine vaccine administering centres was still overwhelming at around 2,000 daily over the last one week.
“The vaccination programme in Labuan is doing extremely well, as we have recorded more than 3,000 people turning up for vaccination daily in the last two weeks. It is slowing down but is still very good, as most of the adult population have had at least one jab,” he said.
The Labuan People’s Representative Council is the coordinator for walk-in and drive-thru vaccinations at the Labuan Matriculation College, Public Works Department, and Universiti Malaysia Sabah Labuan International Campus.
Labuan reported 24 more Covid-19 cases today, bringing the total number of infections on this duty-free island to 9,527.
This is the 19th day in a row that Labuan’s new cases have remained in the double digits, a far cry from June when it reported triple-digit cases daily.
There were also two more deaths, raising total fatalities to 144. – Bernama, July 22, 2021
