Minister Of Health Optimistic Of COVID-19 Vaccination In The Future Can Be 2 Million Per Day Despite Jokowi's Targeted Deadline

JAKARTA - Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said he was optimistic that the injection of COVID-19 vaccination shortly could reach 2 million doses per day.

Although, in fact, President Joko Widodo is targeting vaccination of 2 million doses per day to be carried out in August 2021.

"We are optimistic that we can vaccinate 2 million doses per day", Budi said in a virtual discussion broadcast on Katadata Indonesia's Youtube, Saturday, September 18.

Budi admitted, until now the vaccination of 2 million doses per day has not been achieved. However, there are days when the vaccination milestone is close to nearly 2 million doses.

"We've already posted the figure of 1.7 million. Indeed, if we look at the pattern. We peak on Thursday, then Friday the figure goes down, Saturday goes down, Sunday the lowest is around 300 thousand doses. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday it goes up again and Thursday is the highest", he said.

Furthermore, Budi explained that the vaccination target in Indonesia is around 208 million people. As of today, the national vaccination achievement has reached 3.7 percent.

A total of 123 million doses of vaccine have been injected, both the first and second doses. Budi targets around 300 million vaccination doses to be achieved by the end of December.

"It is estimated that by the end of December there should have been close to 300 million doses. By our calculations, by the end of December, there were 150-175 million people or more than 70 percent of our target population had been vaccinated", said Budi.

It is known that Jokowi had previously requested that in July the vaccination could penetrate one million doses per day. The target was increased for August to 2 million doses per day. For October, the government is also targeting vaccination of up to 3 million vaccines per day.

"I remind all parties that they must work hard so that the target of 1 million vaccinations per day is maintained until the end of July and we can double it in August 2021, reaching 2 million doses per day", he said on Monday, June 28.