Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions are expected to decline in August when 40 percent of the country's adult population is fully vaccinated, said National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

He said vaccines were able to prevent severe effects of Covid-19 disease and the hospital admission rate for the elderly had also shown a declining trend.

Based on Sungai Buloh Hospital’s data, he said the hospital admission rate...