COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients In Indonesia Reaches 16.2 Million People

JAKARTA - A total of 16.217.855 people have received the complete COVID-19 vaccine after this Saturday an additional 277.126 people received the second vaccine injection.

According to data from the COVID-19 Task Force, the addition was accompanied by 1.039.816 people who had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, bringing 41.268.627 people to have received the first injection of several types of COVID-19 vaccine.

Quoted from Antara, Saturday, July 17, with this achievement, 7.79 percent of the target of 208.265.720 people are expected to receive from the government receive the complete COVID-19 vaccine to obtain herd immunity against the disease.

The details are 1.437.497 health workers have received two injections of the COVID-19 vaccine from the targeted 1.468.764 people.

While in the elderly category, there are 3.217.057 people who have received two vaccine injections from the 21.553.118 people targeted by the government.

In the category of public officers, of the 17.327.167 targeted people, 9.424.090 people have received the complete vaccine.

For the vulnerable and the general public, 2.139.182 people have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from the targeted 141.211.181 people.

In addition, there is also the 12-17 year age group category whose vaccination only started this July, with 421.272 people having received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from the targeted 26.705.490 people.

The COVID-19 Handling Task Force also reported that today there were 51.952 new patients added. The new cases were accompanied by the addition of 27.903 recovered patients and 1.092 deaths.