DKI Prepares Schools For COVID Vaccination For Children Age 6-11

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Health Office plans to prepare schools as a center for COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 6-11 years.

"Schools are one of the potential places to provide vaccination services for children aged 6-11 years," said Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division of the DKI Health Office, Dwi Oktavia, in a children's vaccination seminar, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, November 30.

According to him, schools in Jakarta already have a good coordination and cooperation relationship with the Puskesmas as the organizer of the COVID-19 vaccination.

This coordination has been fostered more optimally when the School Children Immunization Month (BIAS) was held.

Not only that, easy access, available open space facilities, and teacher readiness are considerations for COVID-19 vaccinations held in schools.

"We urge parents to not hesitate to vaccinate their children at school because they are well served like health facilities," said Dwi, who is familiarly called Lies.

Even so, his party is still waiting for technical guidance from the Ministry of Health regarding COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 6-11 years.

"We certainly hope that COVID-19 vaccinations for people aged 6-11 years old can start working immediately, but of course the central government is fully preparing, the readiness of its personnel, the most important thing is the availability of the vaccine," said Lies.

Previously, the DKI Jakarta Health Office estimated that the vaccination target for children aged 6-11 years in the capital city would reach around 900 thousand people.

The DKI Health Office conducted a comparison with the Population and Civil Registry Office regarding target data to determine the number of children who need to be vaccinated.