Surakarta City Government Waits For Central Instructions Regarding Strengthening Vaccinations

SURAKARTA - The Surakarta City Government, Central Java, is still waiting for technical instructions from the central government regarding booster vaccinations for the community.

"We are waiting for a booster vaccine plan for the City of Surakarta, namely the Ministry of Health, there is no technical guidance yet," said Head of the Surakarta City Health Service (DKK) Siti Wahyuningsih in Solo, Antara, Friday, January 7.

He said the technical guidelines are also to ensure who is entitled to receive the additional vaccine.

"The allocation of vaccines, who can be vaccinated, do not let the wrong target occur. With the technical instructions we will set the strategy, no need to re-data, who is the booster, that's all," he said.

However, currently his party is still focused on completing vaccinations for children aged 6-11 years.

"For this group, the vaccine achievement is 61.5 percent or 27,708 children. They have started grades 1, 2, and 5 (Elementary School). Even next week, some have started dose two, so some have finished dose one, some have taken dose two ," he said.

With this acceleration, his party targets that vaccinations for this age group will be completed in February, while regarding booster vaccinations, it is possible to cooperate with the TNI/Polri.

"Besides, the government has a plan to have an independent 'booster', I think that is also good, 'sing ora patient is not patient' (those who can't wait are told) to be independent. Which one is free (free) by this government that becomes our job," he said.