JAKARTA - Government Spokesperson for Handling COVID-19, Dr. Reisa Broto Asmoro, asked all parties to remain vigilant even though genome sequencing from Indonesia still has not found any Omicron variants in the country.
"Even though as of last night, the results of whole-genome sequencing from Indonesia still didn't find an Omicron variant in Indonesia. However, high vigilance will still bring benefits to all of us compared to being careless and complacent", he said at a virtual press conference from Jakarta, reported by Antara, on Friday, December 10.
Facing the variants of COVID-19, he said that the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that vaccines are still available to protect humans from serious illness and death.
WHO has also called for every government and individual to use all available tools to carry out prevention, testing, and treatment to fight COVID-19.
One of the most important is speeding up coverage of COVID-19 vaccinations in the most at-risk populations.
The government continues to increase the acceleration of vaccination in the country.
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Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, instructed all vaccination service posts, port health offices, hospitals under the Ministry of Health and health polytechnics to vaccinate all targets regardless of domicile.
As of Friday, at 12.00 WIB, 145,085,912 people had received the first dose or 69.66 percent of the government's target of 208,265,720 people.
The recipients of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have reached 101,794,596 people or 48.88 percent of the set target.
"We use this Christmas and New Year celebration as proof that we, the 280 million people of Indonesia, believe it is better to prevent, stop transmission now than to treat and experience an alarming spike in cases later in 2022", said Reisa.
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