Luhut Targets Vaccination In Big Cities To Reach 70 Percent This Month

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan targets national COVID-19 vaccinations to reach 70 percent in all major cities in Indonesia. He said, this effort was made so that the pandemic could quickly decline to become endemic. For your information, a pandemic is an epidemic that spreads throughout the country quickly and massively. Meanwhile, endemic is a disease that only spreads in a certain region or country. If the vaccination rate can reach that level, said Luhut, the rate of spread of the virus will decrease drastically. Luhut also estimates that the number of confirmed cases per day ranges from single digits at 3,000 to 7,000 cases. This is because until now there is no vaccine whose effectiveness reaches 100 percent or a drug that can cure COVID-19. We don't have a shortage of vaccines," he said in an official statement, Friday, September 10. Luhut said the massive vaccination process that the government continues to push has made Indonesia rank 6th in the country with the highest vaccination rate. Kaya Luhut, this step needs special attention from all parties, because it is the key to handling the outbreak.

In terms of strategy in handling the pandemic in the country, Luhut said, the acceleration of the vaccination process, the implementation of health protocols, both 3M, 3T, and centralized isolation. Moreover, said Luhut, currently there is an application based on digital technology, namely PeduliLindung which is integrated to identify (screening), tracing, and enforce health protocols. It has decreased by 88.1 percent from the peak date of cases on July 15, 2021," he said. Furthermore, Luhut said, the successful handling of the pandemic has also pushed the economic recovery to run quickly. According to Luhut, Indonesia's competitiveness, including investment, is very dependent on the success of the government in controlling the pandemic. "The sooner we succeed in controlling the pandemic, the competitiveness and attractiveness of Indonesia's investment will increase," he said.